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Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.
Acting
Brian Donlevy's Markoff: villainy so thick you could cut it with a bayonet.
Production
Those desert fort sets? Built from scratch in the California sun.
Direction
Wellman's siege sequences still clench your gut 85 years later.

Director
William A. Wellman
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