Renegades (1930)

Directed by

Victor Fleming

Genre

adventure film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French Foreign Legion officer deserts his post after falling for a woman. He then joins a band of renegades in the desert.

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What happens

Renegades is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Victor Fleming for Fox Film. It stars Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, and Noah Beery. Jules Furthman based his script on André Armandy's novel Le Renégat. Fleming shot in the Mojave Desert (with immense sets and hundreds of extras) where the extreme heat proved a severe impediment to the production. Bela Lugosi has a relatively small role as the Marabout, a Rif sheik whom Loy's character manipulates, but his character is important to the story. An uncredited Victor Jory in his film debut plays a Legion officer. Critics mostly acclaimed the film as "a great action picture" and "a box office hit" that had to be held over. It was the last film to be produced entirely by William Fox before he lost control of his studio during a hostile takeover. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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