TV Guide: Bitter Victory

Video: Bitter Victory -- (Movie Clip) Meine Frau!

TCM — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Leith (Richard Burton) is left behind in the North African desert, overseeing the death of two wounded soldiers, one German and one British, in Nicholas Ray's Bitter Victory, 1958.

Video: Bitter Victory -- (Movie Clip) Open, Major Brand

TCM — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Opening credits featuring dummies waiting to be damaged by British commandos, then Major Brand (Curt Jurgens) awaiting an interview, in Nicholas Ray's Bitter Victory, 1958, starring Richard Burton.

Video: Bitter Victory -- (Movie Clip) We're Late

TCM — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Nazis, Arabs and British commandos in local garb as Brand (Curt Jurgens) and Leith (Richard Burton) lead a raid on a German outpost in North Africa, in Nicholas Ray's Bitter Victory, 1958.

Video: Bitter Victory -- (Movie Clip) Futility

TCM — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The "bitter" part delivered in this scene from Nicholas Ray's Bitter Victory, 1958, in which Leith (Richard Burton) counsels ex-lover Jane (Ruth Roman) on pre-mission psychology for her husband.

Video: Bitter Victory -- (Movie Clip) He's Welsh!

TCM — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Welshman Richard Burton (as "Leith") in his first appearance, following Brand (Curt Jurgens) to be interviewed by officers (Alfred Burke, Anthony Bushell) choosing a leader for a commando raid in Bitter Victory, 1958.

Video: Bitter Victory

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A commander receives a citation for an attack on Rommel's headquarters, which is actually undeserved as the commander is unfit for his job. On top of that, unbeknownst to him, his wife is having an affair with one of his officers.

Video: Bitter Victory

CinemaNow — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Inexperienced Major leads the British Desert Commandos on an unsuccessful mission to obtain important secret German army papers at General Rommel's fortress in 1942.