Director: WILLIS GOLDBECK. Screenplay by Roland Kibbee, Frank Davis. Story by James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck. Assistant director: Earl Bellamy. Director of photography: William Snyder. Art director: Carl Anderson. Color by Technicolor. Technicolor Color Consultant: Francis Cugat. Film editor: William Lyon. Set decorator: Louis Diage. Make- up by Clay Campbell. Hair styles by Helen Hunt. Sound engineer: George Cooper. Gowns by Jean Louis. Music director: Morris Stoloff. Music score by David Buttolph. Assistant to the producers: Robert B. Aldrich. A Norman Production. A Columbia Picture. Producers: Harold Hecht, Burt Lancaster.
Copyright 5 November 1951 by Halburt Productions, Inc. A Norma Production, released by Columbia Pictures Corp. New York opening at the Victoria: 26 October 1951. U.S. release: December 1951. U.K. release: 7 April 1952. Australian release: 24 October 1952. 97 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Foreign Legion Sergeant Mike Kincaid (Burt Lancaster) and nine comrades-in-arms undertake to stop a Riff attack on the desert city of Tarfa. His troop includes Delgado (Gilbert Roland), Molier (Kieron Moore) and Londos (George Tobias). Mike captures Mahla (Jody Lawrance), a Riff princess whose marriage to Hussin (Gerald Mohr) will ally two Riff tribes against the French.
COMMENT: A Foreign Legion romp with Burt Lancaster and company pretending to be legionnaires, alternately incredibly brave or playfully skittish. The action is lively enough, the actual locations reasonably attractive, but it is Jody Lawrance who steals the show — without trying!
OTHER VIEWS: Thin and light-hearted, if rather obvious and poorly scripted. Burt Lancaster makes an efficient looking sergeant, and Kieron Moore a somewhat less adequate corporal. — Monthly Film Bulletin.
Copyright 5 November 1951 by Halburt Productions, Inc. A Norma Production, released by Columbia Pictures Corp. New York opening at the Victoria: 26 October 1951. U.S. release: December 1951. U.K. release: 7 April 1952. Australian release: 24 October 1952. 97 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Foreign Legion Sergeant Mike Kincaid (Burt Lancaster) and nine comrades-in-arms undertake to stop a Riff attack on the desert city of Tarfa. His troop includes Delgado (Gilbert Roland), Molier (Kieron Moore) and Londos (George Tobias). Mike captures Mahla (Jody Lawrance), a Riff princess whose marriage to Hussin (Gerald Mohr) will ally two Riff tribes against the French.
COMMENT: A Foreign Legion romp with Burt Lancaster and company pretending to be legionnaires, alternately incredibly brave or playfully skittish. The action is lively enough, the actual locations reasonably attractive, but it is Jody Lawrance who steals the show — without trying!
OTHER VIEWS: Thin and light-hearted, if rather obvious and poorly scripted. Burt Lancaster makes an efficient looking sergeant, and Kieron Moore a somewhat less adequate corporal. — Monthly Film Bulletin.