The Desert Fox

(1951)

88 minutes

Biography / War

Directed by Henry Hathaway

Cast:

James Mason as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Jessica Tandy as Frau Lucie Rommel
William Reynolds as Manfred Rommel
Cedric Hardwicke as Dr. Karl Strolin
Luther Adler as Adolf Hitler
Everett Sloane as General Wilhelm Burgdorf
Leo G. Carroll as Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt
George Macready as General Fritz Bayerlein
Richard Boone as Captain Hermann Aldinger
Eduard Franz as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg
Don De Leo as Major Gen. Ernst Maisel
John Hoyt as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel

The Desert Fox trailer

This film is the biography of Rommel’s military professional life after the Afrika Korps. It also shows his effort on the defenses of Fortress Europe and his role in the attempt made on Hitler’s life. He later took his own life.