The Desert Fox (1951 film)

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The Desert Fox (1951 film) is a 1951 biographical war drama portraying German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s World War II career and moral conflict under the Nazi regime.

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instanceOf biographical war film
film
basedOn Rommel: The Desert Fox
biography by Desmond Young
cinematographyBy Norbert Brodine
countryOfOrigin United States
depictsCountry Nazi Germany
United Kingdom
director Henry Hathaway
distributor 20th Century Fox
editedBy James B. Clark
featuresCharacter Adolf Hitler
Dr. Karl Strölin
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt
linked to: Gerd von Rundstedt

Lucie Rommel
linked to: Lucie Maria Rommel
genre biographical film
drama film
war film
mainCharacter Erwin Rommel
musicBy Daniele Amfitheatrof
notableFor postwar re-evaluation of German military leaders
sympathetic portrayal of Erwin Rommel
originalLanguage English
portrays 20 July plot
Erwin Rommel
German military operations in North Africa
North African Campaign
moral conflict under Nazi regime
portraysActorAs Cedric Hardwicke as Dr. Karl Strölin
James Mason as Erwin Rommel
Jessica Tandy as Lucie Rommel
Leo G. Carroll as Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt
linked to: Gerd von Rundstedt

Luther Adler as Adolf Hitler
producer Nunnally Johnson
productionCompany 20th Century Fox
releaseDate 1951-10-16
releaseYear 1951
runtimeMinutes 88
screenwriter Nunnally Johnson
setDuring World War II
starring Cedric Hardwicke
Everett Sloane
George Macready
James Mason
Jessica Tandy
Leo G. Carroll
Luther Adler

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Leigh Harline workedOn The Desert Fox (1951 film)
James B. Clark edited The Desert Fox (1951 film)