The Desert Fox
Or, Another Failed Assassination
Two years before and nearly two thousand years after a certain other assassination conspiracy, James Mason plays the Nazi general Erwin Rommel, who is somehow tangentially involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler, only he ends up missing out on the fun. Actually, this whole assassination was even more of a failure since Hitler survives it, whereas Brutus et alii actually manage to kill Caesar, even though their cause goes piffle about two and a half years later.
To be honest, this movie didn't do that much for me. Rommel, through a series of events, decides he no longer has faith in Hitler as a leader around the time some other people happen to have an idea to assassinate him. Rommel and the conspiracy kind of cross paths but otherwise seem to have little to do with one another; enough, though, that the state can't let Rommel continue to live (saying this really doesn't spoil anything, since it's more or less explained about twenty minutes into the film).
So, as a story, it left me feeling very much `What's the point?' but there were some cool moments, mostly those involving Rommel being badass in Africa.
Two years before and nearly two thousand years after a certain other assassination conspiracy, James Mason plays the Nazi general Erwin Rommel, who is somehow tangentially involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler, only he ends up missing out on the fun. Actually, this whole assassination was even more of a failure since Hitler survives it, whereas Brutus et alii actually manage to kill Caesar, even though their cause goes piffle about two and a half years later.
To be honest, this movie didn't do that much for me. Rommel, through a series of events, decides he no longer has faith in Hitler as a leader around the time some other people happen to have an idea to assassinate him. Rommel and the conspiracy kind of cross paths but otherwise seem to have little to do with one another; enough, though, that the state can't let Rommel continue to live (saying this really doesn't spoil anything, since it's more or less explained about twenty minutes into the film).
So, as a story, it left me feeling very much `What's the point?' but there were some cool moments, mostly those involving Rommel being badass in Africa.