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Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
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19 February 1950 (USA)
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THEIR FIRST IN A YEAR...THEIR FUNNIEST BY FAR! (original print ad - all caps) more
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Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion...
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Unmemorable Abbott and Costello, but it passes the time
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Bud Abbott | ... | Bud Jones |
| Lou Costello | ... | Lou Hotchkiss |
| Patricia Medina | ... | Nicole Dupre |
| Walter Slezak | ... | Sgt. Axmann |
| Douglass Dumbrille | ... | Sheik Hamud El Khalid |
| Leon Belasco | ... | Hassam |
| Marc Lawrence | ... | Frankie the Loan Shark |
| William 'Wee Willie' Davis | ... | Abdullah (as Wee Willie Davis) |
| Tor Johnson | ... | Abou Ben |
| Sammy Menacker | ... | 'Bert' Bertram (as Sam Mancker) |
| Jack Raymond | ... | Ali Ami |
| Fred Nurney | ... | Commandant |
| Paul Fierro | ... | Ibn |
| Henry Corden | ... | Ibrim |
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Foreign Legion (USA) (short title)
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80 min | Argentina:85 min
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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What's the idea of teaching midgets to wrestle?
Lou Hotchkiss: They're for those small television sets.
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Lou Hotchkiss: They're for those small television sets.
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Featured in The World of Abbott and Costello (1965)
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"Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion" never quite manages to approach the level of "brilliant", but at least it manages to stay fairly consistently on the level of "mildly funny". The best bits include the opening sequence (kind of surprising to see a 1950 movie so openly admitting that pro-wrestling is scripted), the mirages in the desert, and the "Oui" - "We" puns (the French lady: "O-U-I means Yes". Lou: "What does I-O-U mean? No?"). And, thankfully, there are no unnecessary songs to bog down the action. I would describe the film as a pleasant time-passer, but there is one troubling aspect: too many people (Legionnaires as well as Arabs) get killed - not graphically, of course, and mostly off-screen, but still....(**1/2)