Desert Legion (1953)
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Directors
Joseph Pevney
Cast
Alan Ladd, Richard Conte, Arlene Dahl, Akim Tamiroff
The story
Ladd stars as a soldier in the French Foreign Legion who stumbles across a lost city in the desert mountains of Algeria in North Africa.
Genres
Adventure, action film, war film
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