Fleming shot in the Mojave Desert (with immense sets and hundreds of extras) where the extreme heat proved a severe impediment to the production.

Four unruly French Foreign Legionnaires (Warner Baxter, Noah Beery, Gregory Gaye, George Cooper), each with dishonorable pasts, are awarded medals for bravery in recapturing a fort.

When he was a French officer during the Great War, she was Deucalion’s lover, worming military secrets from him to sell to the enemy.

Deucalion and his pals turn renegade, forming an army of black natives and allying with a Rif sheik, Muhammed Halid (Bela Lugosi).

When he confronts her to turn her in, she gets a pistol from her bedroom to kill him, but suddenly Rifs overpower and kidnap her, taking her to Deucalion’s desert headquarters camp.

When Deucalion’s native army besieges his old regiment in a desert fort without water, he is unwilling to order a final attack.