The Rats of Tobruk

3/27/2025

In the real world, WWII was starting to show signs of ending and this morale-booster serves to urge that final push from the Allies to sustain that effort for just a little longer. That message is condensed into the story of three friends from Australia who have found themselves posted to fight in the desert defending Tobruk from the unstoppable Afrika Korps of Rommel. It plays a little to stereotype with the two Aussies - “Bluey” (Grant Taylor) and “Milo” (Chips Rafferty) being the typical lively, irreverent and feisty personalities whilst the plucky Brit amongst their trio is the more reserved and intellectual “Peter” (Peter Finch) and it’s their differences that both entertain us and compel them to sportingly work together to endure and to thwart the encroaching forces that significantl