10 minutes of silent colonial chaos. They really said 'let's film this in New Jersey and call it Africa.'
Production
Fake Africa in New Jersey. The audacity.
Costume
Those legionnaire hats deserve their own credit.
Director
Lucius Henderson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of dozens of Ouida adaptations flooding screens; her novels were basically the MCU of 1912.
The real French Foreign Legion was mostly criminals and refugees, not noble Berties—that would ruin the fantasy.
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