Desert Victory (1943)

1h
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April 12, 1943
Release Date

Desert Victory (1943)

1h
Running Time

April 12, 1943
Release Date

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Plot.

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. Desert Victory tells the story of the Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including some re-enactment. Won "Best Documentary Feature" at the 16th Academy Awards in 1944.

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Cast & Crew.

Harold Alexander

Harold Alexander

Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Bernard L. Montgomery

Bernard L. Montgomery

Self (archive footage)

Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel

Self (archive footage)

Claude Auchinleck

Claude Auchinleck

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alan Brooke

Alan Brooke

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alan Cunningham

Alan Cunningham

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry Harwood

Henry Harwood

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

J.L. Hodson

J.L. Hodson

Narrator (voice) (uncredited) / Writer

Arthur Tedder

Arthur Tedder

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Wilhelm von Thoma

Wilhelm von Thoma

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

David MacDonald

David MacDonald

Director / Producer

Roy Boulting

Roy Boulting

Director

Richard Best

Richard Best

Editor

Details.

Release Date
April 12, 1943

Status
Released

Running Time
1h

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Wiki.

Desert Victory is a 1943 film produced by the British Ministry of Information, documenting the Allies' North African campaign against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps. This documentary traces the struggle between General Erwin Rommel and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, from German and Italian defeats at El Alamein to Tripoli. The film was produced by David MacDonald and directed by Roy Boulting who also directed Tunisian Victory and Burma Victory. Like the famous "Why We Fight" series of films by Frank Capra, Desert Victory relies heavily on captured German newsreel footage. Many of the most famous sequences in the film have been excerpted and appear with frequency in History Channel and A&E productions. The film won a special Oscar in 1943 and the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel took sections of the film for its battle footage.

An early screening in the U.S., at New York's Museum of Modern Art, was for its "The Documentary Film" series, lasting from January through May 1946. This film was shown on April 1-2-3-4, and the Museum offered high praise:

"Before the American documentary had quite learned how to adapt itself to wartime uses, this fine record of the triumphant 1300 mile chase of Rommel's Afrika Korps from El Alamein to Tripoli, by the British 8th Army, came along to celebrate a victory, mark a turning point of the war, and spur on our own official film-makers to report back from the many fronts the thrilling facts of Allied combat. Exceptionally lucid as to the terrain and the action involved, the film also brought home with a shock to the average civilian the reality, the human element, of battle. It was, perhaps, the best and earliest vindication of the documentary film as the powerfully educational and inspiring force it can be."

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