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Release Date: 1951 Cast: Jody Lawrance, Burt Lancaster, Gerald Mohr
Categories: Movies, Comedy, Adventure Ten Tall Men is a 1951 Technicolor comedy adventure film about the French Foreign Legion. It starred Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance and Gerald Mohr. Though co-written and directed by Willis Goldbeck, Goldbeck walked off the film due to disputes with Lancaster (whose own company Norma Productions produced the film) with the film being completed by Robert Parrish. Robert Aldrich was an production manager on the film where he met Lancaster that led him to direct Vera Cruz for him.Robert Clary made his debut in the film as an Arab batman. Portions of the film were filmed in Palm Springs,... MORE
Ten Tall Men is a 1951 Technicolor comedy adventure film about the French Foreign Legion. It starred Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance and Gerald Mohr. Though co-written and directed by Willis Goldbeck, Goldbeck walked off the film due to disputes with Lancaster (whose own company Norma Productions produced the film) with the film being completed by Robert Parrish. Robert Aldrich was an production manager on the film where he met Lancaster that led him to direct Vera Cruz for him.Robert Clary made his debut in the film as an Arab batman. Portions of the film were filmed in Palm Springs, California.
After capturing an important Rif prisoner in an undercover operation, Sergeant Mike Kincaid is imprisoned himself after striking a Lieutenant (Stephan Bekassy) who beats a French woman (Mari Blanchard) with his riding crop after she prefers Kincaid's company to his. Due to a long standing rivalry between Kincaid and the Lieutenant who is in command of the company holding the city of Tarfa whilst the Regiment is away, the Lieuteant uses Kincaid's action of striking him to get his revenge.
Kincaid finds himself imprisoned alongside seven military prisoners and the captured Rif who has refused LESS
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