The Battle of el Alamein

Director: Giorgio Ferroni Giorgio Ferroni

Overview

No relation to the 1953 El Alamein (beyond a common "real life" source), The Battle of El Alamein was a French-Italian coproduction, largely lensed in Spain. Set during the titular desert battle of 1942, the film departs from expectation by concentrating on the Axis point of view. Though they mistrust one another, the German and Italian troops are forced to work shoulder to shoulder to ward off the British. And talk about revisionist history: Rommel (Robert Hossein) is the hero of the piece, and Montgomery (Michael Rennie) is the villain! Battle of El Alamein would make a fascinating triple feature with Five Graves to Cairo (1943) and The Desert Fox (1953). Incidentally, the "Calvin Jackson Padgett" credited with the direction is really Giorgio Ferroni.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/09/2015
UPC:	0644827533725
Original Release:	1968
Source:	Reel Vault
Language:	English
Sales rank:	18,811

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Frederick Stafford	Actor
Robert Hossein	Actor
Michael Rennie	Actor
George Hilton	Actor
Ira von Fürstenberg	Marta
Enrico Maria Salerno	Claudio Borri
Marco Guglielmi	le capitaine allemand
Ettore Manni	le capitaine italien
Mario Chiocchio	Actor
Massimo Righi	le soldat italien
Andrea Fantasia	le docteur de Rommel
Tom Felleghy	le général Ritter von Thoma
Luigi Gatti	Actor
Nello Pazzafini	le sergent italien
Adalberto Rossetti	Actor
Ira vonFuerstenberg	Actor
Carlo Rustichelli	Composer

Technical Credits

Remigio Del Grosso

Ernesto Gastaldi

Giorgio Ferroni	Director
Mino Loy	Producer
Luciano Martino	Producer,Executive Producer
Remigio Del Grosso	Screenwriter
Ernesto Gastaldi	Screenwriter
Italo Cameracanna	Sound Effects