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Chamun Productions present THE RATS OF TOBRUK Screen Play by Charles and Elsa Chauvel Copyright MCMXLIV An RKO Radio Pictures Release Title: This Picture has been made possible by the co-operation of the Australian Army and particularly by the special Army Detachments which gave such devoted service. Appreciation is also extended to The Royal Australian Navy - The Royal Australian Air Force and to the Department of Information. Photography George Heath Sound Jack Bruce L. J. Stuart Editing Gus Lowry Musical Direction Lindley Evans Associates Willie Redstone Charles MacKerras Settings Edmund Barrie Filmed at the studios of Commonwealth Film Laboratories Pty. Ltd. Panophonic Raycophone Recording - Australian made sound system - logo Special Designs Eric Thompson Assistants to Director Harry Freeman Roy Sebastian Unit Management George Barnes Commentary Written by Maxwell Dunn Extra Photography Army Film Unit Army Liaison Major G. K. Austin Asst. Army Liaison Lt. A. E. Dunbar, M.M. Lt. G. Woods Miss Garrick's Costumes Curzons Home Furnishings by Bebarfalds The Players: Grant Taylor Peter Finch Chips Rafferty Pauline Carrick Mary Gay and George Wallace Supported by Joe Valli John Sherwood Walter Pym Norman Blackler Gilbert Ellis Robert Carlyle Joe Anderson Toni Villa The incidents in this film are founded upon fact but the characters portrayed are fictitious. Produced and Directed by Charles Chauvel Rolling title (read by narrator): For eight months at Tobruk in 1941 fifteen thousand Australians and eight thousand British and Indian troops held a German army seven times their number and in seven times their armour. The Germans, understanding machines, but not these men, flung an insult to them in a name - "The Rats of Tobruk". This insult they carried on their bayonets right into the ranks of the oncoming German hordes. It has become one of the finest epitaphs of the war. To these men who could never be driven from their firing posts before Rommel, we pay homage - - "THE RATS OF TOBRUK" The credits don't provide a conventional character list: Grant Taylor Bluey Donkin Peter Finch Peter Linton Chips Rafferty Milo Trent Pauline Garrick Kate Carmody Mary Gay Sister Mary Ellis George Wallace the Barber of Tobruk Joe Valli the Northumberland Fusilier John Sherwood Walter Pym Norman Blackler Gilbert Ellis Robert Carlyle Joe Anderson Toni Villa Japanese soldier (Variant US DVD Head Credits at start of picture): Independent- International Pictures Corp. - logo an Independent-International Pictures Corp. release Copyright MCMLXIV Chamun Productions Copyright renewed Independent-International Pictures Corp. Chamun Productions present "The Fighting Rats of Tobruk" The Men Who Stopped Rommel Screen Play by Charles & Else Chauvel (The US titles also mis-spell actor Gilbert Ellis's name and drops the Panophonic Raycophone recording logo and credit)..

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