Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion (1960)
February 19, 1960Release Date
Plot.
A remake and rewriting by director Bernard Borderie and scripters of a well-made 1932 film, this routine French drama seems a little outdated. The story has changed from a Russian officer who returns home from the war to find his wife has remarried, to a former paratrooper who tries to drive a stolen truck back from Morocco and suffers an accident -- and the same fate as the Russian. As a result of his injuries and the subsequent delay, the ex-military man is unable to get home as scheduled, and the woman he loves decides that he has left her. Once she "realizes" that supposed truth, she decides to marry her boss. As in the earlier film, one of the protagonists ends up in the French Foreign Legion and all three head toward a fateful meeting in a North African desert.
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Cast & Crew.
Noëlle Adam
Françoise Renaud
Christian Marquand
Michel Rousseau
Paul Guers
Henri Mangin
Renaud Mary
Capt. Robert
Guy Mairesse
Serge
Lutz Gabor
Willy
Bernard Borderie
Director
Daniel Cauchy
Fred
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Sergeant X (French: Sergent X) is a 1960 French drama film directed by Bernard Borderie and starring Noëlle Adam, Christian Marquand and Paul Guers. It is a remake of the 1932 film of the same title. It was made in the style of a traditional Foreign Legion film with little acknowledgement of the ongoing Algerian War.The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert.