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D.D. Beauchamp (story)
John Grant (writer) ...
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Release Date:
19 February 1950 (USA) more
Tagline:
THEIR FIRST IN A YEAR...THEIR FUNNIEST BY FAR! (original print ad - all caps) more
Plot:
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion... more | add synopsis
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DVD: Review:The Samuel Fuller Collection
(From The AV Club. 27 October 2009, 10:01 PM, PDT)
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It Sure Isn't Beau Geste! more (11 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Bud Abbott | ... | Bud Jones |
| Lou Costello | ... | Lou Hotchkiss |
| Patricia Medina | ... | Nicole Dupre |
| Walter Slezak | ... | Sgt. Axmann |
| Douglass Dumbrille | ... | Sheik Hamud El Khalid |
| Leon Belasco | ... | Hassam |
| Marc Lawrence | ... | Frankie the Loan Shark |
| William 'Wee Willie' Davis | ... | Abdullah (as Wee Willie Davis) |
| Tor Johnson | ... | Abou Ben |
| Sammy Menacker | ... | 'Bert' Bertram (as Sam Mancker) |
| Jack Raymond | ... | Ali Ami |
| Fred Nurney | ... | Commandant |
| Paul Fierro | ... | Ibn |
| Henry Corden | ... | Ibrim |
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Also Known As:
Foreign Legion (USA) (short title)
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Runtime:
80 min | Argentina:85 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Australia:G | Argentina:Atp | Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #14654) | Sweden:15
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Quotes:
Bud Jones:
What's the idea of teaching midgets to wrestle?
Lou Hotchkiss:
They're for those small television sets.
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Featured in The World of Abbott and Costello (1965) more
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Great addition to the Abbott and Costello film canon as Bud and Lou go after a wrestler in Algiers. Soon they are hunted by a local sheik and his men and a traitor in the foreign legion...none other than slimy(but wonderful) Walter Slezak. Charles Lamont directs the comedic duo once again, and adds some very funny gags to the proceedings. Some of the material has not dated particularly well, but most of it is still very amusing. Some of the highlights include Lou being pursued through the streets of Algiers, Lou training in the foreign legion, the boys out in the desert seeing various mirages, a trip to an oasis, and finally a wrestling performance for the sheik. Look for Tor Johnson as one of the wrestlers. For my money the funniest scene is Lou matching wits with a fish with dentures in the oasis pool. I laughed real hard. Good, clean fun!