Desert Legion is a 1953 American adventure film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Alan Ladd.

Ladd stars as a soldier in the French Foreign Legion who stumbles across a lost city in the desert mountains of Algeria in North Africa.

The film was made by Universal Pictures, and based on a 1927 novel The Demon Caravan by Georges Arthur Surdez.

It was a one-picture deal and gave Ladd a percentage of the profits, a relatively novel thing at the time.

[5] Ladd had broken his hand during a fight scene towards the end of his most recent film The Iron Mistress, but recovered to begin work on Desert Legion on 7 July 1952.