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Desert Sands

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Sheik El Zanal (Keith Larsen) and his faithful sister, Princess Zara (Marla English), plot revenge on an outpost of the French Foreign Legion 15 years after their parents are murdered in cold blood by men dressed as legionnaires. After the brutal massacre of a patrol unit, the fort's newly assigned commander, Capt. David Malcolm (Ralph Meeker), battles the cunning El Zanal and his henchmen while waiting for reinforcements -- and finding himself unexpectedly attracted to the beautiful Zara.

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Steve Morrissey Radio Times May 2
2/5
This funny old pudding of a film - part adventure, part intimate drama about legionnaires' lives, part torrid romance - does not hold together. Go to Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 07/21/2008
C+
Conventional adventure film about the Foreign Legion soldiers fighting off attacking Arab tribesmen in their fort outpost in the Sahara Desert. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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02/09/2014 Rather turgid low budget desert epic. Ralph Meeker is a French Foreign Legionnaire who falls for an Arab woman (the very non-Arab looking Marla English) whose father, John Carradine, has sworn to kill all Legionnaires. It's essentially a western cavalry picture set in North Africa, but it's a pretty dull one peppered with a few decent action sequences. See more 01/21/2014 ok french foreign legion tale See more 09/02/2011 Bland sand pic is full of stilted dialogue and wooden performances. Ralph Meeker while not always the most relaxed of performers was usually looser than he is here, it almost seems as if he had just been handed the script before the cameras rolled so stiff is he. The rest of the cast is little better, Marla English seems to be sleep walking. There are many other much better films in this genre out there find one of them and skip this. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Lesley Selander

Director

Ralph Meeker

Capt. David Malcolm

Marla English

Zara

J. Carrol Naish

Sgt. Diepel

John Smith

Pvt. Rex Tyle

Ron Randell

Pvt. Peter Ambrose Havers
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Movie Info

Synopsis Sheik El Zanal (Keith Larsen) and his faithful sister, Princess Zara (Marla English), plot revenge on an outpost of the French Foreign Legion 15 years after their parents are murdered in cold blood by men dressed as legionnaires. After the brutal massacre of a patrol unit, the fort's newly assigned commander, Capt. David Malcolm (Ralph Meeker), battles the cunning El Zanal and his henchmen while waiting for reinforcements -- and finding himself unexpectedly attracted to the beautiful Zara.
Director
Lesley Selander
Producer
Howard W. Koch
Screenwriter
George W. George, George F. Slavin, Danny Arnold
Production Co
Bel-Air Productions
Genre
Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 1, 2016
Runtime
1h 27m