The Foreign Legion
1928 film by Edward Sloman
- June 23, 1928 (1928-06-23)
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The Foreign Legion is a 1928 American silent adventure film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Norman Kerry, Lewis Stone, and Mary Nolan. The film is based on the 1913 novel The Red Mirage by I.A.R. Wylie.[1] It was one of several Foreign Legion-themed films produced in the wake of the successful 1926 film Beau Geste. The production cost around $250,000, but was the subject of diplomatic protests from French authorities due to its depiction of brutality.[2]
Cast
- Norman Kerry as Richard Farquhar
- Lewis Stone as Col. Destin
- Crauford Kent as Capt. Arnaud
- Mary Nolan as Sylvia Omney (credited as Imogene Robertson)
- June Marlowe as Gabrielle
- Walter Perry as Cpl. Gotz
- Billy Seay as Richard as a Boy (uncredited)
Preservation
With no prints of The Foreign Legion located in any film archives,[3] it is a lost film.
References
Bibliography
- Vasey, Ruth. "Beyond Sex and Violence," in Schatz, Thomas (ed.), Hollywood: Social Dimensions: Technology, Regulation and the Audience, Vol. III (2004). Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 0-415-28134-2
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Foreign Legion.
- The Foreign Legion at IMDb
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Films directed by Edward Sloman
- Sequel to the Diamond from the Sky (1916)
- The Twinkler (1916)
- Fair Enough (1918)
- Molly of the Follies (1919)
- The Westerners (1919)
- The Luck of Geraldine Laird (1920)
- Blind Youth (1920)
- The Sagebrusher (1920)
- The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1920)
- Burning Daylight (1920)
- The Ten Dollar Raise (1921)
- The Other Woman (1921)
- Pilgrims of the Night (1921)
- Shattered Idols (1922)
- Backbone (1923)
- The Eagle's Feather (1923)
- The Last Hour (1923)
- The Price of Pleasure (1925)
- His People (1925)
- The Beautiful Cheat (1926)
- Butterflies in the Rain (1926)
- The Old Soak (1926)
- Surrender! (1927)
- Alias the Deacon (1928)
- The Foreign Legion (1928)
- We Americans (1928)
- Girl on the Barge (1929)
- The Lost Zeppelin (1929)
- The Kibitzer (1930)
- Hell's Island (1930)
- Puttin' On the Ritz (1930)
- Soldiers and Women (1930)
- The Conquering Horde (1931)
- Gun Smoke (1931)
- Murder by the Clock (1931)
- Caught (1931)
- His Woman (1931)
- Wayward (1932)
- There's Always Tomorrow (1934)
- A Dog of Flanders (1935)
- The Jury's Secret (1938)
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