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Desert Victory (1943)

ALL 04/12/1943 (en) War, Documentary 60 Min
  • Release
    04/12/1943
  • Production
    The Army Film & Photographic Unit, Royal Air Force Film Production Unit, British Army Film Unit, Army Film Unit
  • Rotten tomato
    58%
  • Original title
    Desert Victory
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

The most terrifying scenes ever taken under fire!

Overview

A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In endless miles of rock-strewn scrub desert, where civilians hardly existed. Desert Victory tells the story of the Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including some re-enactment. Won "Best Documentary Feature" at the 16th Academy Awards in 1944.

  2. Story

  3. Richard Best

    Editor

  4. David MacDonald

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Harold Alexander

    Self (archive footage)

  2. Winston Churchill

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Adolf Hitler

    Self (archive footage)

  4. Bernard L. Montgomery

    Self (archive footage)

  5. Erwin Rommel

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Claude Auchinleck

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  7. Alan Brooke

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  8. Alan Cunningham

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  9. Joseph Goebbels

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  10. Henry Harwood

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  11. J.L. Hodson

    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

  12. Arthur Tedder

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  13. Wilhelm von Thoma

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 13 , Crews : 5

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Desert Victory (1943) 60 Min

ALL 04/12/1943 (en)
War, Documentary
  • Release 04/12/1943
  • Production
    The Army Film & Photographic Unit, Royal Air Force Film Production Unit, British Army Film Unit, Army Film Unit
  • Original title Desert Victory
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

The most terrifying scenes ever taken under fire!

Overview

A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In endless miles of rock-strewn scrub desert, where civilians hardly existed. Desert Victory tells the story of the Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including some re-enactment. Won "Best Documentary Feature" at the 16th Academy Awards in 1944.

  1. David MacDonald, Roy Boulting

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Richard Best

    Editor

  4. David MacDonald

    Producer



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