March or Die (1977)

Directed by

Dick Richards

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 90 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1920s Morocco, a war-weary American major in the French Foreign Legion is assigned to protect archaeologists from Bedouin revolutionaries. The story follows his struggle with past trauma and a doomed love affair.

slow-burnbleaktensemelancholicwar-wearyromanticnostalgicgritty

What happens

March or Die is a 1977 British war drama film directed by Dick Richards and starring Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow, and Sir Ian Holm. The film celebrates the 1920s French Foreign Legion, whose Major Foster (Hackman), a war-weary American haunted by his memories of the recently ended Great War, is assigned to protect a group of archaeologists at a dig site in Erfoud in Morocco from Bedouin revolutionaries led by El-Krim (based on the Moroccan revolutionary Abd el-Krim). The song "Plaisir d'amour", a tune about lost love and regret, is played repeatedly throughout the story as the film's theme song. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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