Ten Tall Men

Ten Tall Men (1951)

LUSTY! GUSTY! RARING TO GO!

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 against the French, Kincaid kidnaps Mahla. Hussin forcefully takes her back, but by now his planned attack on Tarfa is crumbling and Mahla has begun to fall in love with Kincaid.

Date of release
1951-10-26
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (20)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Director
Willis Goldbeck

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: California

Ten Tall Men is a 1951 American adventure film starring Burt Lancaster and directed by Willis Goldbeck. The plot concerns an American sergeant serving in the French Foreign Legion during the Rif War in Morocco.

Production

The film was the first of a two-picture deal that Columbia Pictures had signed with Norma Productions, the company owned by star Burt Lancaster and producer Harold Hecht. The second would be The First Time (1952), a film in which Lancaster does not appear.

The original story, written by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck, concerned a conflict between the United States Cavalry and Apache Indians. However, Lancaster and Hecht felt that "John Ford and other Hollywood operators have so effectively decimated the Apache population" and hired writer A.I. Bezzerides to reimagine the story with a French Foreign Legion setting during the Rif War (1911–1926).

Goldbeck directed the film but withdrew before its completion following disputes with Lancaster, and the film was completed by Robert Parrish.

The film was shot in February 1950 at the Columbia Ranch in the San Fernando Valley and on location in Yuma, Arizona and Palm Springs, California.

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