The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Movie (1951)
French title : Le Renard du désert
Starring:
James Mason (Field Marshal Erwin Rommel)
Jessica Tandy (Frau Lucie Rommel, Rommel's wife)
Leo G. Carroll (Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt)
Cedric Hardwicke (Dr. Karl Strölin)
(Synopsis needed)
Lockheed Model 212
Perhaps the prototype (reg. NX18955 then C-FBQX) c/n 212-13 which has been sold after RCAF service to US owner and reregistered NC60755) ?
We guess the former place of the gun turret.
Junkers Ju 87 D Stuka
Junkers Ju 87 A-2 Stuka
TK+HE, a Junkers Ju-87A-2 Stuka is shadowed by a dark camouflaged Junkers Ju 87 B.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
North American B-25 Mitchell
Probably the same archive footage which will be used again in The Young Lions.
Bristol 156 Beaufighter
North American P-51 Mustang
North American P-51B/C Mustang
Avro Lancaster
Douglas C-47
Grumman TBF Avenger
The famous straffing in which Rommel was hurt.
The attack occured in Normandy by a deep blue sky weather and was done by two Spitfires ... but first we see a torpedo bomber (!) with a cloudy background.
Supermarine Spitfire
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