Is this movie available on dvd?
Anyone who knows if this movie is available anywhere in the world on dvd?
shareUnfortunately it doesn`t seem to be .They did release the blatant rip-off "Raid On Rommel" a few years back, but only buy if you`re desperate as it`s average.
I`m not sure who holds the rights (Universal?),but I think we might have to pester them for a release.
I'm watching an old video version I taped off A&E from so many years ago. Thoroughly enjoying it.
Wish it could be released on DVD.
I am just dying for this film to be re-released on to wide-screen DVD.
I had heard from some other page that the original release in the
theaters when it came out had sub-titles for the German spoken parts.
That always garners respect from me when a film does not
take the usual route by initialy having the navtive tounge spoken
merly to make sure the audience knows their German and quickly falls
into the rest of the movie having the Germans speaking English.
The filmakers did their homework on the desert war in North Africa which
added to the drama. I call these kind of movies,'Docu-fiction'.
I like this movie for the same reason I like GUNS OF NAVARONE, which had fictional elements such as the island of Navarone, but clearly they had a
good knowledge of WW-II history so they are not making up a story totally
out of whole cloth. I have always thought that the author of GUNS OF NAVARONE looked at the Atlantik Wall defences of the large shore guns on the Occupied British islands of Jersey & Gurnsey and merly took some license by taking the guns and putting them on a occupied Greek Island for the sake of the story.
But getting back to Tobruk, the film emphasized just how vital it was for Rommel to have fuel to keep his assault going and continuing on towards Cairo.
The shortage of fuel, tanks & supplies really contributed to Rommel being stopped at El Alamein.
The British Long Range Desert Group which were commandos during the North African campaign did a lot of infiltration raiding behind German lines to disrupt Rommel's Africa Korp so the filmakers on Tobruk really made a film
that has some basis in fact, and I think that really enhances it.
My last note is movies that don't give a fig about history such as
the Abominable U-571 which depicted the Americans as capturing the Enigma
coding machine from the captured U-Boat when it really was the British
that originally captured it from a U-Boat. The actual incident would
make a far more interesting movie then the mulchy story of U-571.
Think of it this way: U-571's Fake-u-fiction is akin to having a movie
where the filmakers have the Germans attacking Pearl Harbor.
Nuff said
The fact that Tobruk is not available on DVD is a crying shame. It is one of my favourite war films of all time and I have had to resort to buying Raid on Rommel to see the terrific action scenes presented as they should be. That is, on DVD. I sincerely hope it gets released some time soon.
My name is Nathan.
I wholeheartedly agree. It has a storyline that is in the same league as
Guns of Navarrone, with a great cast. Historically it is realistic in the portrayal of desert warfare. The theatrical release had subtitles for the German speaking parts which there are quite a lot of. It's too bad that people who brought out the pan scan VHS could have at least included the subtitles.
I've been debating about buying 'Raid on Rommel' to see it in widescreen because it would taint the original.
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I'm not contesting that Americans ever captured a U-Boat, but that it was the British were first to capture a U-Boat & Engima cipher machine. The HMS Bulldog, captured U-110 in 1941.
The Americans did indeed capture U-505 much later, in June of 1944 which was the first time that the American navy had captured an Enigma cipher machine, by that time, the Allies were routinely reading German Enigma messages.
U-571 is just a Rambo like Mulchy romp with little regard for historical accuracy, even when taking dramatic license to facilitate the drama. U-571 is historically inspired fiction of the lowest caliber.
Das Boot, by Wolgang Petersen is the definitive realistic depiction of
U-Boats in WW-II.
It's available on DVD! Look at amazon. ;-)
shareI agree with your assessment of Das Boot. I rate it as one of the top two or three WWII movies out there and I would be hard pressed to name the other two. That said, I suggest any of you visit my home islands here in Hawaii and spend a short time going through the "Bowfin" here at Pearl Harbor and you'll soon discover that Hollywood films who depict WWII subs are full of baloney. das Boot does a masterful job showing what a WWII sub actually looks like inside it's hull.
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