Search - Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1950 DVD Release: 08/12/1998 Format: DVD - Black and White Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 19 mins Studio: Image Entertainment Members Wishing: 3 Genres: Comedy, Slapstick, Military Comedy, Odd Couple Film

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play wrestling promoters whose star attraction, Wee Willie Davis, skips town to return to his home in Arabia. While scouring the desert in search of Davis, Bud and Lou inadvertently purchase slave girl Patricia Medina, and with equal inadvertence join the Foreign Legion. In their own bumbling, inept fashion, our heroes manage to foil a desert uprising fomented by shiek Douglas Dumbrille and traitorous Legion commandant Walter Slezak. The film's highlights include an opening-scene parody of pre-rehearsed wrestling matches, a "mirage" routine capped by one of the hoariest vaudeville punchlines in history, and a runaway-jeep climax. All in all, however, Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion is one of the team's lesser efforts. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Bud Abbott - Jonesy
Lou Costello - Lou Hotchkiss
Patricia Medina - Nicole
Walter Slezak - Axmann
Douglas Dumbrille - Hamud El Khalid