Several letters arrived (Chris Nelson, Rod Repke, Mark Keigwin and Rick Thomas with more additions to the movie list.

68) Abbot and Costello in the Foreign Legion. 1950 (B&W-80 minutes). Bud and Lou to Algiers where they thwart a crooked railway scheme, a crooked Foreign Legion sergeant (Walter Slezak), and a crooked Arab syndicate with the help of the French secret service (Patrncia Medilla).

69) The African Queen. 1951 (C-105 minutes). Bogart and Hepburn brave the elements and the Germans as they head down river to destroy a German gunboat in Africa during WWI.

70) Beau Hunks. 1931 (colorized B&W-40 minutes). Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion for the usual reasons. Has all the cliches: native revolt, sand storm, desert fort. Not bad. With the histrionic Charles Middleton of "Ming the Merciless" fame (the old Flash Gordon serials, remember?) as a slightly mad Legion officer. Some Turco uniforms evident.

71) Beau Ideal. 1931 (B&W-79 minutes). In this sequel to Beau Geste the fourth member of the boyhood band, American Otis Madison, sets off to find John Geste for Isabel Brandon.

72) Black and White in Color. 1977 (C-90 minutes, French-African). Frenchmen at a remote trading post decide to attack a nearby German fort at the outbreak of WWI.

73) Burn. 1969 (C-112 minutes, Italian-French). Marlon Brando stars as William Walker sent by the British to instigate a slave rebellion in the Caribboan

74) The Cock-Eyed World. 1929 (B &W- 118 minutes). Victor McLaglen stars in sequel to What Price Glory.

75) The Deceivers. 1988 (C- 112 minutes) In 1825 a British officer combats the cult of thuggee in India.

76-78) The Desert Song. 1929 (B&W-125 minutes), 1944 (C-90 minutes) and 1953 (C-111 minutes). Operetta with El Khobar (good guy) fighting evil arabs, Riffs, Nazis, the usual.

79) Eureka Stockade. 1983 (C-l91 minutes). Famous Australian battle and the events surrounding it. Also a 1948 B&W version.

80) Flight. 1929 (B&W-116 minutes). US Marine Corps aviator blasts Sandino' s forces from the sky above Nicaragua.

81) Heart of Darkness. 1993 (C-93 minutes). Adaptation of Conrad's novel about a stearnship expedition up the Congo.

82) The Hellions. 1961 (C-86 minutes). The vile Luke Billings and his sons take over Saunders Post in the Transvaal and there' s only one man to stop them.

83) The Kitchen Toto. 1987 (C-95 minutes). A small boy gets caught up in the Mau Mau rebellion.

84) The Leathernecks Have Landed. 1936 (B&W-69 minutes). A screw-up is tossed out of the Corps but comes right in the end when his company is attacked by banditts in China.

85) Legion of the Doomed. 1958 (B&W-75 minutes). The Foreign Legion is in for trouble again. Someone is stirring up the Berbers.

86) Lion of the Desert. 1979 (C-166 minutes). Libya, 1929, General Graziani and his Italian forces do battle with Omar Mukhtar and his guerillas.

87) Lord Jim. 1965 (C- 160 minutes). Adaptation of Conrad' s novel about a British merchant seaman in Asin.

88) The Marines are Coming. 1935 (B&W). A bad egg wins back his honor in Nicaragua.

89) Mountains of the Moon. 1989 (C-135 minutes). Richard Burton and John Speke search for the source of the Nile.

90) Outpost in Morocco. 1949 (B&W-99 minutes). Action in the desert when a Captain of Spahis is sent to put down a rebellion.

91) Raw Deal. 197? (C-94 minutes, Australian) A politician hires a group of gunmen, unofficially, to kill the leader of a gang of bushrangers.

92) Robbery Under Arms. 1957 (C-83 minutes). A man gets his younger brother mixed up on the wrong side of the law in this tale of Australian bushrangers.

93) Safari. 1956 (C-91 minutes).In the middle of the Mau Mau uprising a hunter takes out a rich man who' s bent on potting a lion.

94) Savage Pampas. 1966 (C-101 minutes. A tough officer leads a mounted company into action on thc Argentine Parnpas.

95) Shout at the Devil. 1976 (C-120 minutes). Lee Marvin and Roger Moore fight German forces in East Africa during WWI.

96) Simba. 1955 (C-94 minutes). Dirk Bogarde stars as a farmer in a story of the Mau Mau Rebellion.

97) Sirocco. 1951 (B&W-98 minutes). Gun-runner Bogart in big trouble with French army of occupation and Druze nationalists.

98) Slavers. 1977 (C-89 minutes). A year after the Treaty of Brussels is signed war breaksout between rival slavers in the coastal region of Afnca.

99) Stanley and Livingstone. 1939 (B&W-101 minutes). Stanley's search for Livingston.

100) Tai-Pan. 1986 (C-127 minutes). The James Clavell novel about the opium trade in China and the beginning of Hong Kong.

101) Tanganyika. 1954 (C-81 minutes). Set in 1900, a small,pvty of people cross into German territory on the trail of a white renegade.

102) Tell It to the Marines. 1927 (B&W-94 minutes, silent). Lon Chaney as a tough Marine Sgt. winds up in China fighting bandits.

103) The Three Musketeers. 1933 (B&W-215 minutes, serial). John Wayne, Noah Beery and Lon Chaney, Jr. in the Foreign Legion fight their way through the desert in search of El Shaitan.

104) Under Two Flags. 1936 Ronald Colman is caught between two women and a Foreign Legion commandant who is jealous of Colman.

105) Untamed. 1955 (C-111 minutes). Tyrone Power Trek to the Dutch Free State climaxes in the battle of Blood River.

106) UTU. 1983 (C-104 minutes, New Zealand). Die hard Maori warrior goes on rarnpage after his family is wiped out in a senseless raid.

107) Walker. 1988 (C-90 minutes). a remake? of Burn in which Walker is made president of Nicaragua with the help of Cornelius Vanderbilt. It is considered a bomb.

108) The Wind and the Lion. 1975 (C-119 minutes). Sean Connery in a loosely based historical film set in 1900 Morocco. Outstanding.

109) You Can't Win Em All. 1970 (C-97 minutes). Action with a group of Mercenaries dunng the Turkish Civil War of 1922.

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles features several episodes dealing with the Belgian army in German East Africa, high marks for accuracy. The six part BBC-Time Life: The Search For the Nile included such notables as Stanley, Baker, Burton and Speke.

Colonial Period Movies: # 58 to # 67

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