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...Desert Rats is at its best when it ditches its contrived plot and concentrates on hard-hitting scenes of desert warfare pieced out with real newsreel shots (e.g., a Commando raid on a Nazi ammunition dump, Rommel's tanks attacking under cover of a sandstorm). Unusual linguistic touch: Actor Mason, who spoke flawless English as Rommel in The Desert Fox, this time affects a rich Teutonic accent...
Heaton Nicholls' plan is for a federal South Africa, split int01) a Boer Republic in Transvaal, Orange Free State and part of Cape Province, 2) a British dominion in Natal and the rest of the Cape. Fire-eating veterans of the anti-Malan Torch Commando back Nicholls to the hilt, but the leaders of the Opposition United Party call his scheme "preposterous," and declare that a British attempt at secession might risk a second Boer...
Thomson's Falls has gone completely Wild West. In the bar of Barry's Hotel, men in checked shirts sat on high stools with gun butts sticking out of black leather holsters. Bearded commando riders shouldered their way in with Sten guns slung on their backs. The flames of a big log fire (it gets cold up here at night) flickered on reckless, sun-wrinkled faces. A pretty woman threw open her white fur coat; round her slim waist was a leather cartridge belt and a bolstered Smith & Wesson...
...Night after night, you lock the doors, and see to the guns, and kiss your wife and kids goodnight, and wonder if you'll see one another alive in the morning. We have no protection, except ourselves. And don't forget, most of us are out on commando duty. Some of us can't farm any more. So you go out a week or two weeks into the mountains, and you leave the farm to be run by your wife, or by a neighbor, in what time he can spare from his own farming, or to your...
...bloody well make the beggars talk," said a commando leader grimly without going into further details...