Overview
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 as Major William Sherman Foster
- Terence Hill as Marco Segrain
- Catherine Deneuve as Simone Picard
- Max von Sydow as François Marneau
- Ian Holm as El Krim
- Jack O'Halloran as Ivan
- Rufus as Sgt. Triand
- Marcel Bozzuffi as Lt. Fontaine
- André Penvern as 'Top Hat'
- Paul Sherman as Fred Hastings