James Mason On Rommel, English Gentlemen And Country Music
March, 1979
The Desert Fox was the first attempt to make a sensible film involving the enemy in World War Two. There was a limit to what we knew about Rommel when we made the film in 1951. Desmond Young's book on which it was based was the only book in English about Rommel at that time. The Germans themselves had not gotten around to writing much about him, because they were a little shy about the whole subject.Although some have remarked that my portrayal was the quintessential Rommel, I wasn't physically...
