The Foreign Legion is a 1928 American silent adventure film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Norman Kerry, Lewis Stone, and Mary Nolan. The film is based on the 1913 novel The Red Mirage by I.A.R. Wylie.Progressive Silent Film List: The Foreign Legion at silentera.com It was one of several Foreign Legion-themed films produced in the wake of the successful 1926 film Beau Geste. The production cost around $250,000, but was the subject of diplomatic protests from French authorities due to its depiction of brutality.Vasey p. 203
Cast Norman Kerry as Richard Farquhar Lewis Stone as Col. Destin Crauford Kent as Capt. Arnaud Mary Nolan as Sylvia Omney (credited as Imogene Robertson) June Marlowe as Gabrielle Walter Perry as Cpl. Gotz Billy Seay as Richard as a Boy (uncredited)
Preservation With no prints of The Foreign Legion located in any film archives,Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Foreign Legion it is a lost film.
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Bibliography Vasey, Ruth. "Beyond Sex and Violence," in Schatz, Thomas (ed.), Hollywood: Social Dimensions: Technology, Regulation and the Audience, Vol. III (2004). Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group.
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