Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob’s buddies, Muggsy and Bilgey, go to a café and there Don falls for Nina, a singer in love with Bob. Bob doesn’t know this and thinks she is Garccia’s girl, and warns Don to have nothing to do with her. Don disregards the warning and Garcia discovers Nina and Don together and provokes Don into hitting him. Don is arrested and thrown into the company brig. Nina, with the aid of an Arabian sheik, Ul Ahmed, helps Don escape. Bob, Muggsy and Bilgey follow but are captured and taken to Ul Hamid’s headquarters. The sheik tortures Don to force Bob to work some captured machine guns for him. Ah Hamid and his tribe attack the fort, but Bob manages to turn the machine guns against his captors, and the fort is saved.
The Legion of Missing Men 1937 HD | Adventure, action & romance film directed by Hamilton MacFadden | Ralph Forbes, Ben Alexander & Hala Linda
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The Legion of Missing Men is a 1937 Monogram Pictures film about the French Foreign Legion set in the French protectorate of Morocco. Directed by Hamilton MacFadden, it stars Ralph Forbes who had also served in the cinematic Foreign Legion in Beau Geste (1926 film) and Beau Ideal (1931).
Plot
Bob Carter is a professional Mercenary whose expertise is in the use of the machine gun. He has plied his trade for Sun Yat-Sen in the Xinhai Revolution, the Mexican Revolution and with the Spanish in the Rif War for Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella. Now he is content to be a Legionnaire in the 20th Marching Company of the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment with his comrades in arms the American Muggsy and the Englishman Bilgey.
Bob’s world changes in a variety of ways. First half his company is lost in attacks by Sheikh Ibrahim-Ul-Ahmed’s insurgents who capture the company’s cargo of crated machine guns and ammunition. Fortunately for the Legion the weapons are disassembled and none of the Sheiks band has the knowledge to get them into working order.
Granted leave in the town of Zabala, Bob is romantically pursued by Nina De Bernay, a French nightclub singer. Nina entertains the Legion but is romantically pursued herself by Bob’s Sergeant Garcia; however Bob believes Nina to be his Sergeant’s woman and does not pursue her.
Arriving with a draft of replacements for the 20th Company is Bob’s own younger brother Don who admires Bob’s career action packed international lifestyle. Initially upset that Don has thrown away his university education and business potential, Bob soon resigns himself to his brother’s company. Problems arise when Nina, who can not have Bob and doesn’t like Sgt Garcia, makes a play for Don. Immature and oblivious to local custom and military discipline, Don strikes Sergeant Garcia who gleefully has him arrested and vows to send him to the dreaded Penal Battalion.
Bob breaks the chain of command to appeal directly to his Regimental Commander to avoid ruining Don’s life and the Colonel allows Don’s release. Unknown to all, Nina uses her friendship with Sheikh Ibrahim-Ul-Ahmed to have two of his men free Don and smuggle him to a port where he may leave French North Africa and desertion the Legion.
Bob and his two friends Muggsy and Bilgey desert themselves to bring Don back. They track and ambush the party killing one of the Arabs, however the survivor brings reinforcements who capture the Legionnaires. The Sheikh initially treats his captives kindly; in order to obtain information. He then uses the opportunity to have Don teach his men how to assemble and use the Hotchkiss M1914 machine guns that they captured from the Legion. This is beyond Don’s knowledge but the Shiek knows of Bob’s expertise and tortures Don until Bob performs these duties. Bob agrees when Don is released. Bob has his party assemble the weapons but modify all but two of the machine guns by filing the Extractor (firearms) down so they will break after a few rounds are fired and jam the weapons.
Meanwhile Nina arrives and sees that the Sheik has not got Don out of the country and instead plans to wipe out the French. Though trusted by the Sheik, Nina proves herself loyal to France by escaping and warning the Legion of the Sheik’s proposed attack on a strategic French fort. The Sheik plans his assault with fire support from the two machine guns manned by the legionnaires who are offered their freedom to switch sides. To ensure their loyalty they are covered by the two other machine guns that Bob has sabotaged.
As the fort is attacked, the four disgraced Legionnaires turn their machine guns on the Shiek and his horde of insurgents.
Cast
- Ralph Forbes … Bob Carter
- Ben Alexander … Don Carter
- Hala Linda … Nina De Bernay
- Roy D’Arcy … Shiek Ibrahim-Ul-Ahmed
- Paul Hurst (actor) … Muggsy
- Jimmy Aubrey … Bilgey
- George Regas … Sgt. Garcia
- Frank Leigh … Colonel Laurente
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