Desert Legion is a 1953 American adventure film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Alan Ladd.
Plot 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.
Cast Alan Ladd as Paul Lartal Richard Conte as Crito Arlene Dahl as Morjana Akim Tamiroff as Pvt. Plevko Oscar Beregi as Khalil (as Oscar Berefi) Leon Askin as Major Vasil Anthony Caruso as Lt. Messaoud George J. Lewis as Lt. Lopez Sujata Rubener as Dancer (as Sujata) Asoka Rubener as Dancer (as Asoka)
Production 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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