The Rats of Tobruk (1944) | |
| Director(s) | Charles Chauvel |
| Producer(s) | Charles Chauvel |
| Top Genres | Action, Drama, War |
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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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During the Siege of Tobruk in 1941, Australian soldiers started calling themselves "The Rats of Tobruk" after German Nazi Radio Berlin described them as "caught like rats in a trap". Moreover, Lord Haw-Haw (i.e. the English language propaganda radio program, Germany Calling) similarly described them as the "poor desert rats of Tobruk."
Exteriors included a large set built at Camden, New South Wales, Australia which portrayed a war damaged street in Tobruk, Libya, North Africa whilst desert scenes including desert battles were filmed at the sand dunes of Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia. End film scenes set in Papua New Guinea were filmed in the South of Queensland, Australia.
The film's dedication and opening prologue states: "For eight months at Tobruk in 1941 fifteen thousand Australians and eight thousand British and Indian troops held a German army seven times their number and in seven time their armour. The Germans, understanding machines, but not these men, flung an insult to them in a name - "The Rats of Tobruk." This insult they carried on their bayonets right into the ranks of the oncoming German hordes. It has become one of the finest epitaphs of the war. To these men who could never be driven from their firing posts before Rommel, we pay homage - - "THE RATS OF TOBRUK"."
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Exteriors included a large set built at Camden, New South Wales, Australia which portrayed a war damaged street in Tobruk, Libya, North Africa whilst desert scenes including desert battles were filmed at the sand dunes of Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia. End film scenes set in Papua New Guinea were filmed in the South of Queensland, Australia.
The film's dedication and opening prologue states: "For eight months at Tobruk in 1941 fifteen thousand Australians and eight thousand British and Indian troops held a German army seven times their number and in seven time their armour. The Germans, understanding machines, but not these men, flung an insult to them in a name - "The Rats of Tobruk." This insult they carried on their bayonets right into the ranks of the oncoming German hordes. It has become one of the finest epitaphs of the war. To these men who could never be driven from their firing posts before Rommel, we pay homage - - "THE RATS OF TOBRUK"."
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