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Corman budgeted the film at two-and-a-half million dollars. Universal felt it should be made for $5 million, but Corman was reluctant to make the movie for that much. His own fee was $200,000 while Gordon was paid $40,000 for his script.
Tobruk is a 2008 film written and directed by Václav Marhoul and starring Jan Meduna and Petr Vanek. It is an adaptation of the classic 1895 American Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane , but transfers the action to North Africa during World War II .
Raid on Rommel is an American B movie in Technicolor from 1971, directed by Henry Hathaway and set in North Africa during the Second World War. It stars Richard Burton as a British commando attempting to destroy German gun emplacements in Tobruk. Much of the action footage was reused from the 1967 film Tobruk, and the storyline is also largely ...
10 April: Siege of Tobruk begins with Australian, British and Indian forces defending; 15 April: British forces are pushed back to Sollum on Egyptian border with Libya; 30 April: Australian forces lose a small part of their positions in Tobruk during the Battle of Salient, roughly a 6th of Tobruk is now held by Germans
Tobruk: Arthur Hiller: Canadian officer guides British and German-Jewish commandos to destroy Tobruk fuel storage, September 1942 1967 France The Two of Us: Le vieil homme et l'enfant (Claude [10]) Claude Berri: Comedy-drama. Jewish boy sent to live on farm during German occupation of France 1967 Poland Westerplatte: Westerplatte: Stanisław ...
In October 1951 Fox announced that Robert L. Jacks would produce and Sam Fuller, who saw active duty in World War II and who had just made Fixed Bayonets for Fox, would direct. The film was based on a book, The Siege of Tobruk by Gregory Rogers, and filming was to start in January 1952.
Tobruk, a 1967 movie; Tobruk, a 2008 movie; Tobruk, a book by Peter Rabe, based upon the 1967 movie; Tobruk, a 1975 wargame; Tobruk, a 1987 video ...
Aerial photograph of the port of Tobruk during the 1941 siege. The small port of Tobruk in Italian Cyrenaica had been fortified by the Italians from 1935. Behind two old outlying forts, they constructed a novel fortification, consisting of a double line of concrete-lined trenches 54 km (34 mi) long, connecting 128 weapons pits protected by concealed anti-tank ditches but the fortifications ...