The hit 20th Century-Fox film, Desert Rats, opened at Chicago at the RKO Grand theatre (Clark near Randolph) on June 10, 1953; an ad reads: "They Stopped The Afrika Korps Cold!" . . . the bottom-half of the double-bill was MGM's The Cry of the Hunted, with Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan and Polly Bergen . . . an ad reads: "Two dangerous men lured into mysterious bayous by an exciting Swamp Girl!
Capt. 'Tammy' MacRoberts, Erwin Rommel, Tom Bartlett, General, Col. Barney White, Sgt. 'Blue' Smith, Lt. Harry Carstairs, Pete, Mick, English Officer, and others
What is the plot of The Desert Rats?
Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them.