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Drums Of The Desert (1940)

• Director
  • George Waggner
• Writers
  • Dorothy Davenport(screenplay)
  • John T. Neville(story)
  • George Waggner(screenplay)
• Stars
  • Ralph Byrd
  • Lorna Gray
  • George Lynn

  Twixt and tween his Dick Tracy movies, Ralph Byrd plays a Foreign Legionnaire in Drums of the Desert. Byrd and his pal Peter George Lynn alternately fight off the Riffs and fight each other over the affections of lovely Lorna Gray. Gee...we always thought that people joined the Foreign Legion to forget women. Monogram's resident black comedian Mantan Moreland is on hand for his usual impeccably timed (albeit politically incorrect) comedy routines. Drums of the Desert was directed by veteran actionmeister George Waggner, long before he began billing himself as "George WaGGner."