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Under Two Flags

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Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. He falls in love with Lady Venetia Cunningham, a visitor to the garrison

Status: Released

Released Date: 1936-04-30

Runtime: 98 mins

Director: Frank Lloyd

Spoken language: English

Genres: Adventure, Romance

Original title: Under Two Flags

Production Companies: 20th Century Fox

Production Countries: United States of America

Cast

Sgt. Victor

Ronald Colman

Cigarette

Claudette Colbert

J.C. Doyle

Victor McLaglen

Lady Venetia Cunningham

Rosalind Russell

Gregory Ratoff

Nigel Bruce

C. Henry Gordon

Herbert Mundin

John Carradine

Frank Reicher

John George

Reviews

Geronimo1967

There is certainly a good deal of chemistry between Claudette Colbert ("Cigarette") and both a charismatic Ronald Coleman ("Victor") and a less curmudgeonly than usual Victor McLaglen ("Doyle") in this otherwise pretty unremarkable desert adventure. You can tell it wasn't shot on location - way too many clouds in the sky, but it's still got plenty of action as the legendary French Foreign Legion must try to keep the peace in a southern Algeria smouldering with revolutionary arabs led by "Sidi-Ben Youssiff" (Onslow Stevens). The story is really just a love triangle - with Colbert playing off the two men quite successfully for a while, and the two men trying to out manoeuvre each other to win her heart. Lots of personable performances - including Nigel Bruce and Fritz Lieber - help this rumble along before a slightly unexpected ending.

2022-06-19

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