646f9e108c During the Rif War in Morocco, the French Foreign Legion's outpost of Tarfa is threatened by Khalif Hussein's tribes but Sergeant Mike Kincaid devises a plan of survival until the arrival of French reinforcements.
Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's outpost of Tarfa. Kincaid volunteers to lead nine other Legionnaires on a mission to delay Hussin's attack till reinforcements arrive. When he discovers that Hussin plans to marry Mahla, a girl from a rival tribe, in order to build a coalition against the French, Kincaid kidnaps Mahla. Hussin forcefully takes her back, but by now his planned attack on Tarfa is crumbling and Mahla has begun to fall in love with Kincaid.
The French Foreign Legion movie usually rankedone of Hollywood's most enjoyable sub-genres, and this is a good though undistinguished example of it. If it doesn't quite match 1953's "Desert Legion," it's probably because of a tongue-in-cheek tone which sometimes seems a bit juvenile, and because of an unconvincing leading lady – Jody Lawrance – who seems more North Hollywood than North Africa. <br/><br/>However, Burt Lancaster shone in this kind of adventure and you don't have to wait long before he has his shirt off in a bathtub scene. He also winds up,was often the case, in a beefcake-bondage scene which has him bound with outstretched arms inside the villain's tent. "I imagine it'll be dawn before you finally die," the villain says. "I should like to watch your entire performance … to the very end." <br/><br/>The villain then nods toward a wizened Arab who's gleefully heating up a variety of branding irons to be used on Lancaster's sweaty face and naked torso. "You'd be surprised at how much Tarik can get from even the most phlegmatic types."<br/><br/>Lancaster's back got lashed in "Rope of Sand" and "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands," so it'd be a switch to see his chest bear the brunt of the torture for a change, but circumstances spare him from such a fate.<br/><br/>Incidentally, this being the prudish era of the early 1950s, Lancaster's pants during this bondage scene are worn high enough to cover his navel.
If like me you prefer adventure movies that entertain and that don't have to engage the brain then this is probably right up your sand dune. Absolutely no message and defiantly old fashioned (because it was made in 1951?) full of corn and clichés but to the light hearted also full of fun and frolics. Most of today's audience will also notice there's no cgi cartoonery that has to be in every film made nowadays.<br/><br/>Swashbuckling Legionnaire Burt Lancaster gets out of jail on the understanding he will delay by 5 days the naughty Riff's attack on their stronghold at Tarfa, picking 9 men fairly good and true to help. He finds an "easy" way to accomplish this: by abducting a sultan's pretty and pretty feisty daughter with the strange gravelly voice and thus getting the Riff's to chase all over the place. Although Lancaster initially seemed to me to be missing Nick Cravat he turned in some fine non-acrobatic comedic moments –the supposed father to 2 ugly daughters, dodging Princess Mahla's bullets, and one of my favourite split seconds from any film ever made is when he lustily roars out "Murderers!" to the aghast wedding party. During the chase a corny variation on Beau Geste is used, Abbott & Costello are referenced, and the tribal division sown in Road To Morrocco is continued to good effect. Because of this film I've always had a little trouble adjusting if I've seen Gerald Mohr without a turban. But what the red blooded Mike was supposed to see in Mahla was beyond me thoughshe wasn't a very friendly lady - even at the end if she'd ever said I Love You to Lancaster I'd take it to mean Take That!<br/><br/>So, it's nothing heavy and has absolutely no significance at all – but every few years it's a pleasant time passer for me, 97 minutes of witty and romantic middlebrow entertainment. By the way that's not something I'd put about The Hobbit, having recently watched that for the first and last time.


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