Production
It was photographed in Technicolor using the Techniscope format, and shot in AlmerÃa, Spain and the Glamis Sand Dunes in the Imperial Valley, of southern California in the United States.
Technical advice and assistance was provided by the 40th Armored Division ("Grizzly") of the California Army National Guard.
In the convoy heading to Tobruk the trucks used are actually M135 and M54, while the SdKfz 7's are M3 halftracks with altered bodies. The tanks in the Italian column are in fact M48 Pattons.
Producer Gene Corman would again use Tobruk's Nazi occupation as the background in his 1990 parody film A Man Called Sarge, although this time set during the Second Battle of El Alamein, in late 1942.
Laurence Harvey was originally slated to play the role of Major Craig.
Read more about this topic: Tobruk (1967 film)
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