Under Two Flags (1936)

60% User Rating

1h 38min

"The World's Most Lovable Love-Team !"

Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. He falls in love with Lady Venetia Cunningham, a visitor to the garrison

Frank LloydDirector

Cast

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Ronald Colman

Sgt. Victor

Claudette Colbert

Cigarette

Victor McLaglen

J.C. Doyle

Rosalind Russell

Lady Venetia Cunningham

Gregory Ratoff

Ivan

Nigel Bruce

Capt. Menzies

C. Henry Gordon

Lieutenant Petaine

Herbert Mundin

Rake

John Carradine

Cafard

Frank Reicher

French General

John George

Arab (uncredited)

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CinemaSerf

Rating 60%

June 19, 2022

There is certainly a good deal of chemistry between Claudette Colbert ("Cigarette") and both a charismatic Ronald Coleman ("Victor") and a less curmudgeonly than usual Victor McLaglen ("Doyle") in this otherwise pretty unremarkable desert adventure. You can tell it wasn't shot on location - way too many clouds in the sky, but it's still got plenty of action as the legendary French Foreign Legion must try to keep the peace in a southern Algeria smouldering with revolutionary arabs led by "Sidi-Ben Youssiff" (Onslow Stevens). The story is really just a love triangle - with Colbert playing off the two men quite successfully for a while, and the two men trying to out manoeuvre each other to win her heart. Lots of personable performances - including Nigel Bruce and Fritz Lieber - help this rumble along before a slightly unexpected ending.