Drums of the Desert
  • Title: Drums of the Desert
  • Original Title: Drums of the Desert
  • Release Date: 06/10/1940
  • Tagline: TEMPESTUOUS ROMANCE IN THE HEART OF THE BURNING SAHARA!
  • Duration:64 Min / 01:04
  • Country:US
  • Genre:Adventure

About Film

On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont meets the beautiful Helene on the ship. A romance ensues, but the two decide to part when Paul learns that Helene is the fiancée of his best friend and fellow officer Raoul. Raoul is wounded during an Arab attack and the wedding is postponed, and Helene and Paul are thrown together and find it impossible to hide their feelings. The meet in the tent of Hassan, a fortune teller, not knowing the tent is a storage place for arms and ammunition belonging to Addullah, an Arab leader determined to avenge the death of his brother Ben Ali.

Movie Rating: 5

Total Votes: 3

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6/10
Ralph Byrd is really pretty poor here as "Lt. Paul Dupont", an officer in the French Foreign Legion sent to Morocco to train an elite squadron of paratroopers. On his way across on the boat from France, he meets "Helene Laroche" (Lorna Gray) and they have a brief romance before they realise that she is engaged to his best friend George Lynn...