Desert Victory (1943)
The most terrifying scenes ever taken under fire!
1943 · 1h 0m · War, Documentary
Genres: War, Documentary
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.
Director: David MacDonald, Roy Boulting
Writers: J.L. Hodson
Editor: Richard Best
Cast
Harold Alexander as Self (archive footage)Winston Churchill as Self (archive footage)Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)Bernard L. Montgomery as Self (archive footage)Erwin Rommel as Self (archive footage)Claude Auchinleck as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Alan Brooke as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Alan Cunningham as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Joseph Goebbels as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Henry Harwood as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)J.L. Hodson as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Arthur Tedder as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)More like this
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