Three Legionnaires
1937 film
Three Legionnaires is a 1937 American comedy adventure film directed by Hamilton MacFadden and starring Robert Armstrong, Lyle Talbot, Fifi D'Orsay and Anne Nagel. It was produced by the independent General Pictures Corporation as a second feature. While the company announced a production schedule of five films, this is the only one that was ever made.
01Synopsis
At the end of World War I, two American soldiers stationed in Siberia find themselves part of a mission confronting like Bolshevik forces. They rescue Sonia, a White Russian princess and hide her from their enemies. She latter correctly identifies a man posing as the Cossack General Stavinski as Bolshevik in disguise. They have to fend off distracting charms of a local temptress Olga and convince a visiting Iowa schoolteacher to pose as the commander of a fictitious American relief force.
02Cast
- Robert Armstrong as Sergeant Chuck Connors
- Lyle Talbot as Private Jimmy Barton
- Fifi D'Orsay as Olga
- Anne Nagel as Sonia
- Donald Meek as Uriah S. Grant
- Man Mountain Dean as Ivan
- Stanley Fields as General Stavinski
- Maurice Black as General Stavinski's aide
- Leonid Snegoff as Innkeeper
- Lloyd Ingraham as Russian Street Singer
- Tom London as Joe- Motorcycle Military Policeman
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