
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt (C. Henry Gordon). To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson (Paul Kelly soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston (Lorna Gray), who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets... (Full plot summary below)
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Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt (C. Henry Gordon). To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson (Paul Kelly soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston (Lorna Gray), who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death...
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| User ReviewAdam SCall this slight Columbia knock-off "Mutiny on the Sahara", as a group of frustrated French Legionnaires take over their fort from a sadistic bully of a corporal and send him on his way to die under the Sahara's unforgiving sun. Included as part of Columbia's Sam Fuller box set; the screenplay was based on his story. |
| User ReviewRussell GIt's about the Foreign Legion, but it actually feels more like a western version of Mutiney On The Bounty. It's decent enough for being so incredibly cheap and the movie just flies by. Being 58 minutes long helps too. |