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The Rats of Tobruk (1944) was a Action - War Film directed by Charles Chauvel and produced by Charles Chauvel.

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The Australian troops who were stationed at Tobruk in 1941 were from the Australian 9th Division and the 18th Brigade of the Australian 7th Division and were under the command of Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead.
This movie utilizes a narrative technique which features narration in a fictional film spoken by a character that has already died. The dead narrator character was utilized in this film six years before it was used in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd..
Legendary Australian actor Chips Rafferty appears in this movie as Milo Trent. About a decade later, Rafferty would appear playing Sergeant 'Blue' Smith in another movie featuring "The Rats of Tobruk" with Richard Burton entitled The Desert Rats.
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