An English nobleman, known only as Victor, arrives in Algiers and joins the French Foreign Legion as a private without revealing his true identity. He attracts and is loved by Cigarette, a French-Arab girl and "daughter of the regiment," but does not return her attentions.


The nickelodeon velvet parts, and out of the charcoal grain strides a mirage so tactile you can taste the Sahara’s flint on your tongue: Under Two Flags, that 1922 desert blossom oft-overshadowed by Browning’s later carnivals of the grotesque, here unfurls like a blood-stained silk banner snapping in the sirocco. For...

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" The nickelodeon velvet parts, and out of the charcoal grain strides a mirage so tactile you can taste the Sahara’s flint on your tongue: Under Two Flags, that 1922 desert blossom oft-overshadowed by Browning’s later carnivals of the grotesque, here unfurls like a blood-stained silk banner snapping in the sirocco. Forget every postcard romanticism you’ve been force-fed; this is a fever dream shot through with cordite and kohled tears, where empire is a frayed cuff and honor a currency long deva..."
Ethel Grey Terry
Arthur Shirley, Tod Browning, Ouida, Edward T. Lowe Jr., Gardner Bradford, Elliott J. Clawson
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