We're in the Legion Now is a 1936 American adventure comedy film directed by Crane Wilbur and shot in Magnacolor. The film is also known as The Rest Cure (American reissue title), which was the title of the 1934 original J.D. Newsom story the film was based on.

Plot

Two petty criminals are pursued by a gangster from the United States to Paris, France, where they enlist into the French Foreign Legion to escape. After being drafted to a garrison in North Africa, they fall foul of military authority and are sent to a sadistic punishment camp, where they lead an insurrection against its commanding officer, and then help to defeat a native Mohammedan revolt.

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Cast

Reginald Denny as Dan Linton

Esther Ralston as Louise Rillette

Vince Barnett as Spike Conover

Eleanor Hunt as Honey Evans

Claudia Dell as Yvonne Cartier

Robert Frazer as Capt. Henri Rillette

Rudolph Anders as Sgt. Groeber

Francisco Marán as Abdul Ben-Abou

Merrill McCormick as Ali

Frank Hoyt as Adjutant Cartellini

Manuel Peluffo as Military Prisoner

Charles Moyer as Recruit Ringleader

Lou Hicks as Al Petrelli, American Gangster

See also

List of early color feature films

References

External links

1936 films

1930s color films

1930s adventure comedy films

Films about the French Foreign Legion

Grand National Films films

Cinecolor films

American adventure comedy films

Films set in Africa

Films set in deserts

American multilingual films

Films based on short fiction

Films directed by Crane Wilbur

1936 multilingual films

1936 comedy films

1930s English-language films

1930s American films

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