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...Germans in Yugoslavia seemed to be rapidly closing the dangerous Dalmatian gap in the wall of Axis Europe. Credit for this achievement went to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, whose command in northern Italy was recently extended to include Yugoslavia...
...problem given Rommel was tough and thankless, but just the thing for a former genius trying a comeback. The Partisans under Tito (Josip Broz) then held much of the country in patches of varying strength. They occupied Split (Spalato), the most important Dalmatian port, and many of the islands off the Adriatic coast from Fiume to Dubrovnik (Ragusa). The Germans were on the defensive everywhere, attacked from all sides...
...Columbia depended on in making "Sahara," but they have put him into an exciting and quite credible picture. Bogart, himself, doesn't stand out as he did in "Casablanca." A tough story, it uses the old desert themes (we had to go out for a drink twice) with a Rommel-El Alamein background...
...Germans contended with a slowly organizing Italian guerrilla force, most active in the woods and mountains of northern Italy. They might not yet be a major threat to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's garrisons. But they diverted German troops badly needed elsewhere, and they were growing. They were led by Italian Army officers, stiffened by escaped British prisoners of war, aided by the countryside's peasantry. They controlled villages ungarrisoned by the enemy. They sabotaged rail and road communications vital to German transport. Against them the Nazis rallied the bedraggled remnant of Benito Mussolini's blackshirts, decreed...
...tank named Lulubelle is isolated during Rommel's African heyday. Under Humphrey Bogart's command, it staggers southward through sand and heat. Fuel and water run short. The crew picks up first a mixed batch of English and Empire men, later a Sudanese soldier (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), finally an arrogant young Nazi ace (Kurt Krueger). Half dead with thirst, this military mixed grill at last reaches an abandoned well, finds a choked dribble of water. There, as they die off one by one, the Allied men manage through a series of improbable...