Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
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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.… More 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
- Directed By
- Charles Lamont
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Feb 19, 1950 Wide
- On DVD
- Jun 29, 1994
Critic Reviews
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Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com
The beginning of the end for the comedy team, but it does have some hilarious moments.
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Cast
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Bud Abbott
as Jonesy
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Lou Costello
as Lou Hotchkiss
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Patricia Medina
as Nicole
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Walter Slezak
as Axmann
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Douglas Dumbrille
as Hamud El Khalid
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Leon Belasco
as Hassam
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Marc Lawrence I
as Frankie
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William "Wee Willie" Davis
as Abdullah
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Tor Johnson
as Abou Ben
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Jack Raymond
as Ali Ami
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Fred Nurney
as Commandant
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Paul Fierro
as Ibn
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Henry Corden
as Ibrim
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David Gorcey
as Newsboy
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Chuck Hamilton
as Thugs
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Ted Hecht
as Proprietor
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Alberto Morin
as Lieutenant
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Buddy Roosevelt
as Orderly
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Dan Seymour
as Josef
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Guy Beach
as Saleem
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Charmienne Harker
as Arab Girl
- Ernesto Morelli
- Jack Shutta
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Bobby Barker
as Man
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Sammy Menacker
as Bertram
