Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
- gypsy
- foreign legion
- morocco
- sahara desert
- post world war i
- archaeologist
- tribal warfare
- archaeological dig
- desert warfare
- tribal chief
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gene Hackman
Major William Sherman Foster
Terence Hill
Marco Segrain
Catherine Deneuve
Simone Picard
Max von Sydow
François Marneau
- Ian Holm — El Krim
- Jack O'Halloran — Ivan
- Rufus — Sgt. Triand
- Marcel Bozzuffi — Lt. Fontaine
- André Penvern — 'Top Hat'
- Paul Sherman — Fred Hastings
- Vernon Dobtcheff — Mean Corporal
- Marne Maitland — Leon
- Luigi Bonos — Andre
- Wolf Kahler — First German
- Matthias Hell — Second German
- Directed
- Dick Richards
- Written
- David Zelag Goodman, Dick Richards
Production
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 · 90 ratings
- Studio
- Associated General Films, ITC Entertainment
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