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March or Die

Year:

1977

Duration:

107 min

Genres:

Drama | War | Adventure | Romance

IMDB rate:

6.3

Director:

Dick Richards

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1977-09-08

Filming Locations: Tabernas Desert, Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Earnings

Budget: $9,000,000

Gross: $1,000,000 (USA) Copyright Holder © MCMLXXVII March or Die Associates Related Links

Cast

Actor

Character

Eve Brenner

Leila Shenna

Gene Hackman

Maj. William Sherman Foster

Terence Hill

Marco Segrain

Catherine Deneuve

Simone Picard

Max von Sydow

Francois Marneau

Ian Holm

El Krim

Jack O'Halloran

Ivan

Rufus

Sgt. Triand

Marcel Bozzuffi

Lt. Fontaine

André Penvern

Top Hat

Paul Sherman

Fred Hastings

Vernon Dobtcheff

Mean Corporal

Marne Maitland

Leon

Luigi Bonos

Andre

Wolf Kahler

First German

Matthias Hell

Second German

Jean Champion

Minister

Walter Gotell

Col. Lamont

Paul Antrim

Mollard

Catherine Willmer

Petite Lady

Arnold Diamond

Husband

Maurice Arden

Pierre Lahoud

Albert Woods

Henri Delacorte

Liliane Rovère

Lola

Elisabeth Mortensen

French Street Girl

François Valorbe

Detective

Villena

Gendarme

Ernest Misko

Aide in Minister's Office

Guy Deghy

Ship's Captain

Jean Rougerie

Legionnaire 1 at Station

Guy Mairesse

Legionnaire 2 at Station

Guy Marly

Singing Legionnaire

Margaret Modlin

Lady in Black

Luis Barboo

(uncredited)

Clément Harari

Bernard (uncredited)

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Trivia

Selected by Quentin Tarantino for the First Quentin Tarantino Film Fest in Austin, Texas, 1996.

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Gene Hackman had been experiencing pains in his back. The film's insurance company refused to allow the shooting to continue because a permanent injury to Hackman could have cost it a lot of money. The insurers suggested shooting the film somewhere in the deserts of the United States. But the color of the sand dunes in Agadir is not the same as the color of the sand in Nevada. Several big American transport planes were used to transport tons of sand from the Agadir dunes in order to camouflage the sand of Nevada. (Source: Beyond Casablanca, Page 131).

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El Krim is based on the Morrocian revolutionary Abd el-Krim (1882-1963), the leader of a large-scale armed resistance movement in the Rif, a Berber area of north-eastern Morocco.

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Goofs

The Legion uses French military equipment and customs. Yet in one scene, when the new recruits are awakened one morning, an American bugle call (reveille) is used.

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Quotes

Maj. William Sherman Foster: The Legion... is the most disciplined army in the world!

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Minister: [Reassuring Marneau that, in spite of Major Foster's lack of cooperation, the Foreign Legion will be used to help provide military security for Marneau's intended archaeological excavation at Erfoud] We can certainly risk a few Legionnaires for France. After all, they are mostly foreigners.

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Simone Picard: [Marco has cleverly found a way to get from the troop car to the first class train car] What else can you do besides steal and climb like a monkey?

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