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Raymond Hatton | ... |
Renard
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Ralph Bushman | ... |
Dutch Schmidt
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John Wayne | ... |
Lt. Tom Wayne
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Ruth Hall | ... |
Elaine Corday
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Lon Chaney Jr. | ... |
Lt. Armand Corday [Chs. 1, 10]
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Hooper Atchley | ... |
El Kadur
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Gordon De Main | ... |
Colonel Duval
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Robert Frazer | ... |
Major Booth, USA
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Noah Beery Jr. | ... |
Noah Stubbs [Chs. 1-2, 10]
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Al Ferguson | ... |
Ali
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Edward Peil Sr. | ... |
Leon Ratkin
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William Desmond | ... |
Captain Boncour
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George Magrill | ... |
El Maghreb
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Robert Warwick | ... |
Col. Brent, USA [Ch. 1]
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American aviator Tom Wayne (John Wayne)and his co-pilot, Stubbs (Noah Beery Jr.)are flying over an African desert when they see trouble below...Arab bandits are attacking three troopers of the French Foreign Legion. Using the machine gun mounted on his airplane, Wayne quickly stops the Arab attack. The rescued Legionaires---Clancy (Jack Mulhall), Renard (Raymond Hatton) and Dutch Schmidt (Ralph Bushman)introduce themselves as "The Three Musketeers." They inform Wayne that the attackers were followers of "The Devil's Circle," a fanatic cult out to destroy the Foreign Legion by gun-running and insurrection. The cult's leader is El Shaitan, a masked man whose real identity is known to none. Wayne is drawn into the fight through the encouragement of his new friends, and a call for help from an old friend, Armand Corday (Lon Chaney Jr.), who has been duped into The Devil's Circle, but is trying to break away. But Armand, is killed by an assassin before he can tell what he knows about the ... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
After John Wayne's character tells his three musketeer friends he can't go with them, he tells them he's promised "Ruth Corday" he'd come back to marry her. He should have said "Elaine" Corday, the correct name for the character. Wayne obviously mixed up the first name of the actress ("Ruth" Hall) with the first name of the character she plays. He does, however, get her name correct in the rest of the film. I only noticed this goof since I am big on details, names and such and just happened to catch the error. Wayne, otherwise can do no wrong. It is always worth seeing him in his early days of film. Action-packed hero whether in the desert, like in this picture, or on the Western trail, he's always the hero.