MARCH OR DIE (1977)

Foreign Legion Major Foster, an American haunted by his memories of the recently-ended Great War, is assigned to protect a group of archaeologists at their dig. Foster's unit includes the charming, thieving rascal Marco, who joined the Legion only to avoid prison. After long stretches protraying the boredome and hardship of day-to-day life in the Legion, Foster's command occupies a small village where the archaeologists believe they've found a burial site sacred to the Arabs. An Arab leader uses this affront to unite the tribes in Jihad, and attacks the tiny Legion garrison at the dig.

Gene Hackman (Major William Sherman Foster), Terrence Hill (Marco Segrain), Catherine Deneuve (Simone Picard), Max von Sydow (Francois Marneau), Ian Holm (El Krim), Rufus (Sgt. Triand), Jack O'Halloran (Ivan), Marcel Bozzuffi (Lt. Fontaine), Andre Penvern (Top Hat), Paul Sherman (Fred Hastings), Vernon Dobtcheff (Mean Corporal), Marne Maitland (Leon), Gigi Bonos (Andre), Wolf Kahler (First German), Jean Champion (Minister), Walter Gotell (Colonel Lamont), Paul Antrim (Mollard), Arnold Diamond (Husband), Maurice Arden (Pierre Lahoud), Albert Woods (Henru Delacorte), Liliane Rovere (Lola).

FACTS

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

BOX OFFICE RESULT: $1.0 million (USA)

DIRECTOR: Dick Richards.

BUDGET: $9 million (USA)

WRITERS: Edward Di Lorenzo (uncredited) and David Zelag Goodman.

PRODUCERS: Jerry Bruckheimer and Dick Richards.

CRITICAL COMMENT

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Maurice Jarre.

"Good cast wages losing battle with static script and walks downheartedly through action scenes. Disappointing epic-that-might-have-been." -- Leonard Maltin

DISTRIBUTOR: Columbia Pictures.