Desert Legion
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Duration Language English | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Adventure Running time 1h 26m Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1953 Initial release April 20, 1953 (United Kingdom) Screenplay Irving Wallace, Lewis Meltzer Cast (Paul Lartal), (Crito Damou / Omar Ben Khalif), (Morjana), (Pvt. Plevko), (Maj. Vasil), (Lt. Massaoud) Similar movies Beau Ideal (1931), Beau Geste (1939), The Legion of Missing Men (1937), Anthony Caruso appears in Desert Legion and Fort Algiers, Desert Sands (1955) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Desert Legion is a 1953 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Joseph Pevney starring Alan Ladd, Richard Conte and Arlene Dahl.
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Plot
Ladd stars as a soldier in the French foreign legion who stumbles across a lost city in the mountains of Algeria.
Cast
Production
The film was made by Universal Pictures, and based on a 1927 novel The Demon Caravan by Georges Arthur Surdez.
It was Alan Ladd's first film for Universal since becoming a star. It was a one-picture deal and gave Ladd a percentage of the profits, a relatively novel thing at the time. (He split profits with the studio 50-50.) Joseph Pevney was assigned to direct.
Ladd had broken his hand during a fight scene towards the end of his most recent film The Iron Mistress, but recovered to begin work on Desert Legion on 7 July 1952.
Akim Tamiroff joined the support cast. It was his first Hollywood film in three years.
References
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