Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding Arabs, and are soon in Casablanca getting decorated by the French Minister of War. Deucalion spots Eleanor, a spy who had done him dirt and after tangling with the local gendarmes, they take her and head back for Morocco where they are charged with desertion, and have to go out and defeat some more marauding natives, and dodge the machine-gun fire directed at them by the highly-displeased Eleanor, and one thing just follows another.
"Renegades," from 1930, is a curious beast. If you're into old-school adventure, like really old-school black-and-white stuff with desert battles and dramatic flourishes, you might find some fun here. It's got that classic French Foreign Legion vibe, a bit dusty but earnest. Folks expecting modern pacing or nuanced cha...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Victor Fleming
Maurice Elvey
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""Renegades," from 1930, is a curious beast. If you're into old-school adventure, like really old-school black-and-white stuff with desert battles and dramatic flourishes, you might find some fun here. It's got that classic French Foreign Legion vibe, a bit dusty but earnest. Folks expecting modern pacing or nuanced characters will probably find it a slog, though. Think early talkie melodrama with some surprisingly frantic action. The film wastes no time. Four Legionnaires, our main crew, are alr..."
André Armandy, Jules Furthman
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