About 8 minutes in, a newspaper shows a headline about an attack on a Foreign Legion company. The article underneath is about capital available for businesses.
After Fred Hastings is captured, tortured and killed, when the legion confronted El Krim, one of his men spits water in Fred's face and he blinks and spits some back.
The Legionnaires wear prewar dark blue uniforms and greatcoats. The French Foreign Legion adopted a khaki field uniform in 1907.