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Ten Tall Men is a 1951 American adventure film starring Burt Lancaster about the French Foreign Legion during the Rif War in Morocco. Though co-written and directed by Willis Goldbeck, Goldbeck walked off the film due to disputes with Lancaster (whose own company, Norma Productions, produced the film) with the movie being completed by Robert Parrish. [2]
A French Foreign Legion sergeant leads a mission to delay an attack by a Riff leader who plans to marry a girl from a rival tribe. IMDb provides cast, crew, reviews, trivia, and more for this 1951 action film.
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- Action, Adventure, War
- Willis Goldbeck
- 1952-01-25
A list of the actors, directors, writers, producers and other crew members who worked on the 1951 war film Ten Tall Men. The film stars Burt Lancaster as a sergeant who leads a group of prisoners to escape from a German camp.
Ten Tall Men. 1951 · 1 hr 37 min. TV-PG. Adventure · Action · Comedy · War. During the Rif War, ten men in the French Foreign Legion volunteer to thwart a group of bandits by kidnapping the daughter of a sheik. Subtitles: English.
- Willis Goldbeck
- January 1, 1951
- 97 min
Ten Tall Men(1951), a tongue-in-cheek Foreign Legion spoof, began as a western story by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck -- a cavalry vs. Apaches tale to be produced by Norma Productions for release by Columbia Pictures. Norma was the name of the production company run by Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster, who was attached to star.
Ten Tall Men. Sgt. Mike Kincaid (Burt Lancaster) is a rough-and-tumble French Foreign Legion leader who, while imprisoned in a stockade, overhears rumors of an enemy attack on his company's fort ...
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Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's outpost of Tarfa. Kincaid volunteers to lead nine other Legionnaires on a mission to delay Hussin's attack till reinforcements arrive. When he discovers that Hussin plans to marry Mahla, a girl from a rival tribe, in order to build a coalition ...
