Rogues' Regiment

Rogues' Regiment (1948)

Last outpost of adventure ! Where men leave to fight and fight to leave !

A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.

Date of release
1948-12-28
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Adventure
Director
Robert Florey

Casting

Interesting facts

Rogues' Regiment is a 1948 American action war film directed by Robert Florey and starring Dick Powell, Märta Torén, and Vincent Price. It is the first American feature film to be set in the First Indochina War.

Production

Max Ophüls was hoping to direct the film but was passed over in favour of Robert Florey.

The film was first announced in November 1947 with writer-producer Robert Buckner saying he was inspired by stories of former Nazis enlisting in the French Foreign Legion. In particular he researched the disappearance of Martin Bormann.

Edmond O'Brien was originally announced as star. It was made shortly after the production of another film about the French Foreign Legion, Outpost in Morocco. Burt Lancaster was sought for a supporting part.

In March 1948 it was announced Universal signed Dick Powell to play the lead. Edmond O'Brien dropped out of the film to make a movie with Deanna Durbin.

It was meant to be the 60th film directed by Robert Florey at Universal.

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