The Battle of El Alamein(La battaglia di El Alamein)
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Italy, France · 1969
1h 36m
Director Giorgio Ferroni
Starring Frederick Stafford, Enrico Maria Salerno, George Hilton, Robert Hossein
Genre War, Action
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This movie's opening prologue states: "June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!"
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