Desert Legion
| Desert Legion | |
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| Directed by | Joseph Pevney |
| Produced by | Ted Richmond |
| Screenplay by |
Irving Wallace Lewis Meltzer |
| Based on | novel The Demon Caravan by Georges Surdez |
| Starring |
Alan Ladd Richard Conte Arlene Dahl |
| Music by | Frank Skinner |
| Cinematography | John F. Seitz |
| Edited by | Frank Gross |
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Production
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Universal Pictures
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Release date
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Running time
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86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,650,000 (US) |
Desert Legion is a 1953 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Joseph Pevney starring Alan Ladd, Richard Conte and Arlene Dahl.
Ladd stars as a soldier in the French foreign legion who stumbles across a lost city in the mountains of Algeria.
The film was made by Universal Pictures, and based on a 1927 novel The Demon Caravan by Georges Arthur Surdez.
It was Alan Ladd's first film for Universal since becoming a star. It was a one-picture deal and gave Ladd a percentage of the profits, a relatively novel thing at the time. (He split profits with the studio 50-50.) Joseph Pevney was assigned to direct.
Ladd had broken his hand during a fight scene towards the end of his most recent film The Iron Mistress, but recovered to begin work on Desert Legion on 7 July 1952.
Akim Tamiroff joined the support cast. It was his first Hollywood film in three years.
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