Hi !
I'm curious about legionnaire movies. Can you tell me what other legionnaire movies exist and their names, and your suggestions?
Thank you very much friends !
Lionheart or A.W.O.L as it was named in the UK is a legionannire movie(at least in the start!)
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beau geste is a good legionaire movie if you like black and white movies
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Simon: An English Legionnaire (aka: Deserter-2002)
Fort Saganne (1984-french)
March or Die (1977)
Sergant Klems (Man of Legend - 1971)
Beau Geste (1966 version is the most action-oriented)
Legion of the Doomed (1958)
Desert Hell (1958)
Desert Sands (1955)
Desert Legion(1953)
Fort Algiers (1953)
Ten Tall Men (1951)
Outpost in Morocco (1949)
Rogues Regiment (1948)
Drums of the Desert (1940)
Legion of Missing Men (1937)
Trouble in Morocco (1937)
Under Two Flags (1936)
Sergent X (1931)
The Wages of Virtue (1924-silent)
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"March or die" comes out on DVD 2007, it was a pretty good legionnaire movie and follows a similar plot like a John Ford-western with Henry Fonda/John Wayne (I think it is "They died with their boots on"). Gene Hackmann, Terence Hill (yes, and surprisingly good) - and a fantastic battle scene at the end.
"Beau Geste" (with Gary Cooper) - hope they make a DVD, I love this film
Henry Wayne's and Juan Fonda's was "Fort Apache."
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The Flying Deuces (1939) http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0031322/
Oliver is heartbroken when he finds that Georgette, the inkeeper's daughter he's fallen in love with, is already married to dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois. To forget her, he joins the Legion, taking Stanley with him. Their bumbling eventually gets them charged with desertion and sentenced to a firing squad. They manage to escape in a stolen airplane, but crash after a wild ride.
Beau Travail, a 1999 film directed by french director Claire Denis.
A very interesting account on legionnaires training in Africa.
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I think you can find some films listed on the Legion Etrangere's very own official website. (not an ex-legionnaire's site or a tribute site)
http://www.legion-etrangere.com
It's in French. The site's been revised a bit since I last visited and looks to be re-organised. It's now got a really good audio section where you can listen to legionnaires singing Legion chants des traditions and Legion musique centrale playing marches and bugle calls.
But I don't know if they still list films about the Legion !
There were a couple of documentaries done in the UK which went onto viseo/DVD.
One was about 1981, presented by Simon Murray, an ex-Caporal Chef of the 2e Regiment Etranger de Parachutiste.
The other, called the French Foreign Legion (about 1998 ?) follows a Scottish recruit, Volontaire Engage Heggie (ex-Royal Marines), when he joins at Fort Nogent, Paris through to his completion of training and being awarded the Kepi Blanc. The next part follows the men of 3e Regiment Etranger d'Infanterie in the South American jungles and swamps of French Guyane.
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Carry On Follow That Camel (1967)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061680/
The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076297/
Get the Gary Cooper version of BEAU GESTE and the Gene Hackman MARCH OR DIE. Two very different views of the famous French Foreign Legion. There was a kiddie TV show in the 1950s about the Legion starring the one and only Buster Crabbe. It was a pretty good show for its time and made as if each episode were a mini movie.
shareMost of the movies in the sub-genre about "Atlantis" turning out to be in the Sahara can aclso be characterized as "legionnaire" movies. Only the one from the 60's, with Jean-Louis Trintignant as a geologist hunting for oil, seems not to hinge on Legionnaires somehow getting lost in the desert.
There is also, of course, "The Battle of Algiers," "Lost Command" with Anthony Quinn and Alain Delon (and George Segal as an Algerian rebel!), something where Delon played a Legion deserter who reluctantly winds up in the "OAS" and something called "Legionnaire" which stars Stewart Granger and the recently deceased Dorian Leigh.
Awesome! I was wondering the same thing than OP!
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