![]() ![]() Planning a mutiny and the marauding Tauregs pin this badly outnumberedĪnd bitterly divided unit of Legionnaires at Fort Zinderneuf. Meanwhile, the unruly troops he commands are ![]() Lejaune sets his sights on stealing the jewel, which rumor holds to be Meet up in the deserts of Africa where they fall under the command of the To being the thief in order to protect the others and one by one they head Prized Blue Water sapphire turns up missing, each of the young men confesses Horseplay centered around these myths and legends. Their raucous youths are filled with the literature of adventure and ritualized The three Geste brothers, orphaned early in life, are raised by an Aunt. Happily, the original novel is nearly its equal. It was one of those movies you had to watch every time it was on. Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy and Susan Hayward, You march or you die!"] spring to mind, and of course the greatest of themĪll was Beau Geste (1939). Or Die (1977) [bad movie, great tagline: "In the French Foreign Legion, ![]() I don't remember all of the Foreign Legion movies we watched but AbbottĪnd Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950) and March ![]() Signed up, lent itself easily to fiction and to childhood fantasy. The concept of this fightingįorce made up of desperate men of all nations, given a new lease on lifeīecause they did not have to give their real name or background when they On Doom and Lara Croft, have the same romantic love of the French Foreign Somehow I doubt that the generation of kids growing up today, whelped ![]()
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