Tobruk (1967 film)

Tobruk
film poster by Frank McCarthy
Directed by	Arthur Hiller
Written by	Leo V. Gordon
Produced by	Gene Corman
Starring	Rock Hudson George Peppard Guy Stockwell Nigel Green
Cinematography	Russell Harlan
Edited by	Robert C. Jones
Music by	Bronisław Kaper
Color process	Technicolor
Production companies	Gibraltar Productions The Corman Company
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	February 7, 1967 (1967-02-07) (Chicago, Illinois)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6 million[1]
Box office	$2,000,000 (US/Canada)[2]

Tobruk is a 1967 American drama war film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard. The film was written by Leo Gordon (who also acted in the film) and released through Universal Pictures.

Set in North Africa during the North African Campaign of World War II. It is a fictionalized story of members of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and the Special Identification Group (SIG) that endeavour to destroy the fuel bunkers of Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel's Panzer Army Africa in Tobruk. The film is loosely based on the British attacks on Italian and German forces at Tobruk codenamed "Operation Agreement". The film depicts the operation as being successful, even though actually Operation Agreement was a disastrous failure.