List of Films
Title | Director | Notable cast | Summary | Released | Notes |
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Adventure in Sahara | D. Ross Lederman | Paul Kelly, C. Henry Gordon, Lorna Gray | Stationed at Fort Agadez, a lonely French desert outpost in Algeria, Legionnaire Jim Wilson leads a mutiny against his cruel and oppressive commanding officer Captain Savatt. | 1938 | |
Ali Baba Bound | Robert Clampett | Mel Blanc (voice) | Porky Pig discovers a plot by Ali-Baba and his Dirty Sleeves to attack his fort and rushes to warn his fellow legionnaires, only to discover everyone has left for the Legion convention in Boston, and is forced to single-handedly defend the fort with his rented camel. | 1940 | Animated short film |
Arabian Tights | Hal Roach | Charley Chase, Muriel Evans, Carlton Griffin | After being coerced in to joining the Foreign Legion, Charley and his friends are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan. | 1933 | Comedy short |
Beau Geste | Herbert Brenon | Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, and Ralph Forbes | 1926 | Based on the novel of the same name | |
Beau Geste | William A. Wellman | Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston | 1939 | ||
Beau Geste | Douglas Heyes | Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure, and Leslie Nielsen | 1966 | ||
The Last Remake of Beau Geste | Marty Feldman | Marty Feldman, Ann-Margret, and Michael York | 1977 | ||
Beau Geste | Douglas Camfield | Benedict Taylor, Anthony Calf, and Jonathon Morris | 1982 | Television mini-series | |
Beau Hunks | James W. Horne | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, and James W. Horne | Oliver joins the Foreign Legion after being jilted by his girlfriend dragging his best friend Stanley along with him. | 1931 | |
Beau Ideal | Herbert Brenon | Ralph Forbes, Loretta Young, and Irene Rich | Otis Madison joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend held prisoner in Morocco. | 1931 | |
Beau Sabreur | John Waters | Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, and Noah Beery | 1928 | Lost film | |
Beau Travail | Claire Denis | Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, and Grégoire Colin | Galoup reflects on his career as a Foreign Legion officer, leading troops in in the Gulf of Djibouti, and his jealous rivalry with young recruit Gilles Sentain. | 1999 | Awards: 5 total |
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion | Lester Fuller | Buster Crabbe, Fuzzy Knight, Cullen Crabbe | This early U.S. television series followed the adventures of Capt. Michael Gallant and his fellow Foreign Legionnaires | 1955-1957 | One of the few American television series in the 1950s to be filmed outside the US, most being limited to California, with the show being shot on location in Morocco. Several episodes were edited into the 1954 film Desert Outpost. |
China Gate | Samuel Fuller | Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, and Nat King Cole | Sergeant Brock and Goldie, ex-American Korean War veterans serving as French Foreign Legion mercenaries in the First Indochina War, are ordered to lead a squad to blow up an arms depot near the Chinese border. | 1957 | |
Desert Hell | Charles Marquis Warren | Brian Keith, Barbara Hale, and Richard Denning | 1958 | ||
Desert Legion | Joseph Pevney | Alan Ladd, Richard Conte, and Arlene Dahl | 1953 | ||
Desert Sands | Lesley Selander | Ralph Meeker, Marla English, and J. Carrol Naish | 1955 | ||
The Desert Song | Roy Del Ruth | John Boles, Carlotta King, and Louise Fazenda | 1929 | Based on the operatta of the same name. | |
The Desert Song | Robert Florey | Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, and Bruce Cabot | 1943 | ||
The Desert Song | H. Bruce Humberstone | Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, and Steve Cochran | 1953 | ||
The Devil's in Love | William Dieterle | Victor Jory, Loretta Young, and Vivienne Osborne | 1933 | ||
Drums of the Desert | George Waggner | Ralph Byrd, Lorna Gray, and George Lynn | 1940 | ||
Due della legione straniera | Lucio Fulci | Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, and Alighiero Noschese | 1962 | ||
The Flying Deuces | A. Edward Sutherland | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, and Jean Parker | 1939 | ||
Follow that Camel | Gerald Thomas | Phil Silvers, Kenneth Williams, and Jim Dale | 1967 | ||
The Foreign Legion | Edward Sloman | Norman Kerry, Lewis Stone, and Crauford Kent | 1928 | Considered a lost film. | |
Fort Algiers | Lesley Selander | Yvonne De Carlo, Carlos Thompson, and Raymond Burr | 1953 | ||
Le Grand Jeu | Jacques Feyder | Marie Bell, Pierre Richard-Willm, and Charles Vanel | 1934 | ||
Invincible | Blackie Ko | Dave Wong, Sharla Cheung and Blackie Ko | A timid triad member fled to France with his sister after killing a rival gang boss accidentally, in order to earn a living and to gain a French nationality, he joins the Foreign Legion. | 1992 | |
Juarez | William Dieterle | Paul Muni, Bette Davis, and Brian Aherne | 1939 | ||
Legion of Missing Men | Hamilton MacFadden | Ralph Forbes, Ben Alexander, and Hala Linda | 1937 | ||
Legion of the Condemned | William A. Wellman | Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, and Barry Norton | 1928 | Considered a lost film. | |
Legion of the Doomed | Thor L. Brooks | Bill Williams, Dawn Richard, and Anthony Caruso | 1958 | ||
Legionnaire | Peter MacDonald | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Steven Berkoff | 1998 | ||
Lionheart | Sheldon Lettich | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, and Deborah Rennard | 1990 | ||
Lost in the Legion | Fred C. Newmeyer | A. Bromley Davenport, Betty Fields and Leslie Fuller | 1934 | ||
A Man Called Sarge | Stuart Gillard | Gary Kroeger, Gretchen German, and Marc Singer | 1990 | ||
Il Sergente Klems | Sergio Grieco | Peter Strauss, Tina Aumont, and Pier Paolo Capponi | 1971 | Known as Man of Legend internationally. | |
March or Die | Dick Richards | Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, and Catherine Deneuve | 1977 | ||
Marcia o Crepa | Frank Wisbar | Stewart Granger, Dorian Gray, and Carlos Casaravilla | 1962 | Known as The Legion's Last Patrol in the United Kingdom and Commando in the United States. | |
La Légion saute sur Kolwezi | Raoul Coutard | Bruno Cremer, Mimsy Farmer, and Giuliano Gemma | Based on the French intervention during the 1978 military coup in Kolwezi. | 1980 | Known as Military Coup in Kolwezi in the United States. |
Les Morfalous | Henri Verneuil | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret, and Michel Constantin | 1984 | ||
Morocco | Josef von Sternberg | Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou | 1930 | Film was selected to the National Film Registry in 1992. | |
The Mummy | Stephen Sommers | Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and John Hannah | 1999 | ||
Outpost in Morocco | Robert Florey | George Raft, Marie Windsor, and Akim Tamiroff | 1949 | ||
Renegades | Victor Fleming | Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, and Noah Beery | 1930 | ||
Rogues' Regiment | Robert Florey | Dick Powell, Märta Torén, and Vincent Price | 1948 | ||
Savior | Predrag Antonijevic | Dennis Quaid, Nastassja Kinski, and Pascal Rollin | 1998 | ||
Scorching Sands | Hal Roach, Robin Williamson | Stan Laurel, James Finlayson, and Katherine Grant | 1923 | ||
Secondhand Lions | Tim McCanlies | Haley Joel Osment, Michael Caine, and Robert Duvall | 2003 | ||
Sergeant X | Vladimir Strizhevsky | Ivan Mozzhukhin, Trude von Molo, and Peter Voß | 1932 | ||
Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion | Bernard Borderie | Noëlle Adam, Christian Marquand, and Paul Guers | 1960 | ||
Ten Tall Men | Willis Goldbeck | Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, and Gilbert Roland | 1951 | ||
The Three Musketeers | Colbert Clark, Armand Schaefer | Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, Ralph Bushman, and John Wayne | 1933 | The Three Musketeers serial was edited into the 1946 film Desert Command. | |
Timbuktu | Jacques Tourneur | Victor Mature, Yvonne De Carlo, and George Dolenz | 1959 | ||
Trouble In Morocco | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Jack Holt, Mae Clarke, and Paul Hurst | 1937 | ||
Un de la légion | Christian-Jaque | Fernandel, Robert Le Vigan, and Daniel Mendaille | 1936 | ||
Under Two Flags | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Herbert Heyes, and Stuart Holmes | 1916 | Based on the novel of the same name. Considered a lost film. | |
Under Two Flags | Tod Browning | Priscilla Dean, James Kirkwood and John Davidson | 1922 | ||
Under Two Flags | Frank Lloyd | Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, and Victor McLaglen | 1936 | ||
The Unknown | George Melford | Lou Tellegen, Theodore Roberts, and Dorothy Davenport | 1915 | ||
Wee Wee Monsieur | Del Lord | Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard | 1938 | Comedy short | |
We're in the Legion Now | Crane Wilbur | Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston and Vince Barnett | 1936 | ||
The Winding Stair | John Griffith Wray | Alma Rubens, Edmund Lowe and Warner Oland | 1950 |
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