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The Legion of Missing Men (1937)

The Legion of Missing Men poster
Directed by
Hamilton MacFadden
Genre
romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 02m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man joins the French Foreign Legion in Morocco. A romantic story follows his experiences there.

romanticold-fashioneddramaticadventuroussentimentallightpatriotic

What happens

The Legion of Missing Men is a 1937 Monogram Pictures film about the French Foreign Legion set in the French protectorate of Morocco. Directed by Hamilton MacFadden, it stars Ralph Forbes who had also served in the cinematic Foreign Legion in Beau Geste (1926) and Beau Ideal (1931). Singer and actress Hala Linda was married to Richard Gump, the composer of the film's "The Legionnaires Song". It was the only film of Monogram's Marlene Dietrich imitator. The film features scenes reused from a silent film, presumably Under Two Flags. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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