
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
Cast

Gene Hackman
Major William Sherman Foster

Terence Hill
Marco Segrain

Catherine Deneuve
Simone Picard

Max von Sydow
François Marneau

Ian Holm
El Krim

Jack O'Halloran
Ivan

Rufus
Sgt. Triand

Marcel Bozzuffi
Lt. Fontaine

André Penvern
'Top Hat'
Paul Sherman
Fred Hastings

Vernon Dobtcheff
Mean Corporal

Marne Maitland
Leon

Luigi Bonos
Andre

Wolf Kahler
First German
Matthias Hell
Second German

Jean Champion
Minister

Walter Gotell
Col. Lamont

Leila Shenna
Arab Girl on the Street
Margaret Modlin
Woman in Black Dress

Guy Marly
Singing Legionnaire

Eve Brenner
Singing Girl
Guy Mairesse
Maurice, Legionnaire at the Station

Jean Rougerie
Legionnaire at the Station

Guy Deghy
Ship Captain
Ernest Misko
Assistant to the Minister

François Valorbe
Detective

Liliane Rovère
Lola
Albert Woods
Henru Delacorte
Maurice Arden
Maurice Arden

Arnold Diamond
Henry, the Lady's Husband

Catherine Willmer
Lady
Paul Antrim
Mollard
Crew

Dick Richards
Director, Story, Producer

David Zelag Goodman
Screenplay, Story
Stanford C. Allen
Editor
O. Nicholas Brown
Editor
John C. Howard
Editor

John Alcott
Director of Photography

Jerry Bruckheimer
Producer
Georges-Patrick Salvy-Guide
Producer
Patrick Guide
Producer

Gil Parrondo
Production Design
Maude Spector
Casting
Larbi Yacoubi
Casting
Catherine Vernoux
Casting
Guidarino Guidi
Casting
David Tomblin
Second Unit Director
Bill Phillips
Sound Editor
Jim Bullock
Sound Editor
Ivan Sharrock
Sound Mixer

Maurice Jarre
Original Music Composer

Julián Mateos
Set Decoration

Glenn R. Wilder
Stunt Coordinator

Drew Struzan
Art Designer
José María Tapiador
Art Direction



















