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Desert Victory

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Calorie Rating: 84
Released: 1943-04-12
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Studios: The Army Film & Photographic Unit, Royal Air Force Film Production Unit, British Army Film Unit, Army Film Unit,


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

Harold Alexander
Character: Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Character: Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Character: Self (archive footage)

Bernard L. Montgomery
Character: Self (archive footage)
Erwin Rommel
Character: Self (archive footage)
Claude Auchinleck
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alan Brooke
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alan Cunningham
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph Goebbels
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry Harwood
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
J.L. Hodson
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Arthur Tedder
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Wilhelm von Thoma
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)


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