Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
- Starring:
- Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, (more)
- Director(s):
- Charles Lamont
Synopsis of Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play wrestling promoters whose star attraction, Wee Willie Davis, skips town to return to his home in Arabia. While scouring the desert in search of Davis, Bud and Lou inadvertently purchase slave girl Patricia Medina, and with equal inadvertence join the Foreign Legion. In their own bumbling, inept fashion, our heroes manage to foil a desert uprising fomented by shiek Douglas Dumbrille and traitorous Legion commandant Walter Slezak. The film's highlights include an opening-scene parody of pre-rehearsed wrestling matches, a "mirage" routine capped by one of the hoariest vaudeville punchlines in history, and a runaway-jeep climax. All in all, however, Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion is one of the team's lesser efforts. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion
- Bud Abbott - Jonesy
- Patricia Medina - Nicole
- Douglas Dumbrille - Hamud El Khalid
- Marc Lawrence - Frankie
- Tor Johnson - Abou Ben
- Fred Nurney - Commandant
- Henry Corden - Ibrim
- Dan Seymour - Josef
- Jack Shutta
- Bobby Barker - Man
- Guy Beach - Saleem
- Alberto Morin - Lieutenant
- Ted Hecht - Proprietor
- Lou Costello - Lou Hotchkiss
- Walter Slezak - Axmann
- Leon Belasco - Hassam
- Wee Willie Davis - Abdullah
- Jack Raymond - Ali Ami
- Paul Fierro - Ibn
- David Gorcey - Newsboy
- Charmienne Harker - Arab Girl
- Sammy Menacker - Bertram
- Ernesto Morelli
- Buddy Roosevelt - Orderly
- Chuck Hamilton - Thugs
- Director(s):
- Charles Lamont
- Writer(s):
- Martin Ragaway, John Grant, Leonard B. Stern
- Producer(s):
- Robert Arthur
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