Very good for its day. James Mason does an excellent job as German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. Very little in the way of combat, action - when battle scenes are shown, they are stock film clips from WW2. This movie is basically a bio of the Field Marshall from his "Desert Fox" days of the Afrika Korps to the his death in 1944.
If you did not know anything of Rommel, I think you'd like the movie. It is a very sympathetic portrayal of one of the most capable German Generals in WW2, but it's not all that simple. He was an ardent Nazi and served as the commander of Hitlers bodyguard in the early part of the war.
It can be preachy at times, and some of the war scenes are cheesy - you can certainly tell which are clips, when painted backgrounds are used. Not big on technical effects. Historians love to debate who was a better General Patton or Rommel. Putting that aside, Patton was a better movie than this.
If you did not know anything of Rommel, I think you'd like the movie. It is a very sympathetic portrayal of one of the most capable German Generals in WW2, but it's not all that simple. He was an ardent Nazi and served as the commander of Hitlers bodyguard in the early part of the war.
It can be preachy at times, and some of the war scenes are cheesy - you can certainly tell which are clips, when painted backgrounds are used. Not big on technical effects. Historians love to debate who was a better General Patton or Rommel. Putting that aside, Patton was a better movie than this.