Paul Lartal of the Foreign Legion meets the princess of a lost city in the Algerian mountains.Paul Lartal of the Foreign Legion meets the princess of a lost city in the Algerian mountains.Paul Lartal of the Foreign Legion meets the princess of a lost city in the Algerian mountains.
Oscar Beregi Sr.
- Si Khalil
- (as Oscar Beregi)
Sujata Rubener
- Dancer
- (as Sujata)
Asoka Rubener
- Dancer
- (as Asoka)
Jan Arvan
- Moslem Merchant
- (uncredited)
Emile Avery
- Soldier
- (uncredited)
Eugene Baxter
- Officer
- (uncredited)
Elena Beattie
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Frederic Berest
- Guard Follower
- (uncredited)
Don Blackman
- Kumbaha
- (uncredited)
Peter Coe
- Lt. Doudelet
- (uncredited)
Richard Cowl
- Lebeau
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaBased on a 1927 novel by Georges Arthur Surdez titled "The Demon Caravan". Surdez (1900-49) contributed many adventure stories to such publications as "Collier's", the "Saturday Evening Post" and "Argosy". He was especially noted for his French Foreign Legion tales.
- Quotes
Crito Damou aka Omar Ben Khalif: [to Lt. Lopez] A brave and silent soldier. We shall see how long you can remain brave and silent.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Hollywood Collection: Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man (1999)
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and desert movie...
The legion étrangère has always been a topic that makes people dream.Lots and lots of movies were made ,not only in France.Here,the most famous are probably Duvivier's "la bandera" and Jacques Feyder's "le grand jeu".Twas also one of Edith Piaf's favorite subjects of song (le fanion de la légion,mon légionnaire). This is a pretty ridiculous movie.At the beginning,I was thinking it was a remake of Pierre Benoit's "l'atlantide"(two most famous versions being Pabst 's (1932)with Brigitte Helm-Metropolis- ,and Edgar G Ulmer's (1963))It was certainly influenced big-time by Benoit's book.The blond officer lost in the desert who's taken in by a beautiful lady from a mysterious city of the sands,we've seen that movie before. After,Joseph Pevney and Pierre Benoit go different ways.THe director,abetted by unimaginative scriptwriters ,turn what could have been a trip into the fantastic element,à la "thief of Bagdad" or "lost horizons",into the run-of -the- mill hero-heroine-villain.The rest is so predictable :you can see where the characters are up to from a mile off."Desert Legion" fills its quota of treasons,duels,torture,and glamour.The setting is not impressive, a two-bit cardboard desert city,and for good measure,exotic dances.
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- dbdumonteil
- Sep 17, 2001
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- Der Legionär der Sahara
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,650,000
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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