Movie
Ten Tall Men
Action/adventure film with a runtime of 97 minutes, released in 1951. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
For his initial effort from his own Norma Productions, Burt Lancaster picked a winner in Ten Tall Men. Lancaster stars as "Sergeant Mike," a two-fisted Foreign Legionnaire presiding over a lovable band of mercenaries, sneak thieves and cutthroats. While sitting in the stockade for the umpteenth time, Mike learns of a Riff plan to attack his fort. He and his men break jail and embark on their own attack of the Riffian encampment. Part of their strategy (much of which is improvised on the spot) is to kidnap Mahia (Jody Lawrence), the toothsome daughter of the Riffian sheik. Understandably, Mahia despises her captors until she realizes that the film's real villain is the covetous Caid Hussan (Gerald Mohr). This one's got everything, from a campy reenactment of a key scene in Beau Geste to the old reliable threat of a red-hot iron upon female flesh. Mari Blanchard, fully clothed for a change, shows up early in the film as a coquettish French mademoiselle who foments an all-out donnybrook among Mike and his fellow legionnaires. With the exceptions of Jody Lawrence and Gerald Mohr, no one in Ten Tall Men takes the proceedings too seriously; the film has some of the cheeky insouciance of Lancaster's subsequent swashbuckler The Crimson Pirate.
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Cast
- Burt Lancaster
- Jody Lawrance
- Gilbert Roland
- Kieron Moore
- George Tobias
- John Dehner
- Nick Dennis
- Mike Mazurki
- Gerald Mohr
- Ian MacDonald
- Mari Blanchard
- Donald Randolph
- Robert Clary
- Henry Rowland
- Michael Pate
- Stephen Bekassy
- Raymond Greenleaf
- Paul Marion
- Henri Letondal
- Philip Van Zandt
- Joy Windsor
- Joann Arnold
- Edith Sheets
- Diana Dawson
- Gwen Caldwell
- Helen Reichman
- George Khoury
- Nick Cravat
- Shimen Ruskin
- Carlo Tricoli
- Thom Conroy
- Alan Ray
- Frank Arnold
- Ralph Volkie
- Mickey Simpson
- Charlita
- Rita Conde
- Benny Burt
- Carl Anderson
- William Snyder
- Robert Aldrich
- Roland Kibbee
- George Cooper
- Frank Davis
- William Lyon
