Ten Tall Men

Ten Tall Men is a 1951 Technicolor comedy adventure film about the French Foreign Legion during the Rif War in Morocco. It starred Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance and Gerald Mohr. Though cowritten and directed by Willis Goldbeck, Goldbeck walked off the film due to disputes with Lancaster whose own company Norma Productions produced the film with the film being completed by Robert Parrish. Credited as an associate producer, Robert Aldrich was a production manager on the film where he met Lancaster that led him to direct Vera Cruz for him. Robert Clary made his debut in the film as an Arab batman. Portions of the film were filmed in Palm Springs, California. The story was released as a Fawcett Movie Comic16 in April 1951.

Kincaid is imprisoned alongside seven military prisoners and the captured Rif who has refused to talk, with the lieutenant refusing food and water to both Kincaid and the Rif. When his two comradesinarms who accompanied him on the mission, Corporals Luis Delgado Gilbert Roland and Pierre Molier Kieron Moore, sneak food and water to Kincaid, he shares them with the Rif. To repay Kincaids kindness and assuage his own guilt for telling the lieutenant about Kincaids assignation with the Frenchwoman, the tells of an impending attack on Tarfa while the garrison is weak. The Rif believes Kincaid will escape to save himself, but he instead warns the lieutenant.The experienced Kincaid tells the lieutenant that their only chance is to release him to lead a series of guerrilla hitandrun attacks to delay the enemy for five days until the regiment returns. The lieutenant agrees, but only if Kincaid will testify that the idea was his. Kincaid agrees to his terms. The only men available for the mission are the seven prisoners, who receive full pardons for their crimes. His two corporals join them, raising their number to ten. ........

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