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Overview

User Rating:
6.1/10   1,145 votes
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Director:

Dick Richards

Writers:

David Zelag Goodman (story) and
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Release Date:

8 September 1977 (West Germany) more

Genre:

Drama | War | Adventure | Romance more

Tagline:

The Foreign Legion - they were the greatest fighting force of all time and they obeyed but one command - [March Or Die] more

Plot:

Foreign Legion Major Foster (Hackman), an American haunted by his memories of the recently-ended Great War... more | add synopsis

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NewsDesk:

March and Die Movie Review
 (From MoviesOnline. 19 March 2009, 8:00 PM, PDT)

User Comments:

Great cast AND really good movie more (16 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Gene Hackman ... Maj. William Sherman Foster
Terence Hill ... Marco Segrain

Catherine Deneuve ... Simone Picard

Max von Sydow ... François Marneau

Ian Holm ... El Krim

Jack O'Halloran ... Ivan
Rufus ... Sgt. Triand
Marcel Bozzuffi ... Lt. Fontaine
André Penvern ... Top Hat
Paul Sherman ... Fred Hastings

Vernon Dobtcheff ... Mean corporal
Marne Maitland ... Leon
Luigi Bonos ... Andre

Wolf Kahler ... German #1
Matthias Hell ... German #2
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Marchar o morir (Spain) (Venezuela) [es]
Epithesi i thanatos (Greece) [el]
Hornanmarssi (Finland) [fi]
Il était une fois la légion (France) [fr]
La bandera: marcia o muori (Italy) [it]
Marche o muera (Argentina) [es]
Marschera eller dö (Sweden) [sv]
Marschier oder stirb (West Germany) [de]
Oi tyhodioktes tis erimou (Greece) (reissue title) [el]
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Runtime:

107 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Sir Lew Grade more


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Trivia:

Selected by Quentin Tarantino for the First Quentin Tarantino Film Fest in Austin, Texas, 1996. more

Goofs:

Factual errors: The Legion uses French military equipment and customs. Yet in one scene, when the new recruits are awakened one morning, an American bugle call (reveille) is used. more

Quotes:

El Krim: [showing Foster and his patrol the dead body of a legionnair] One of my men got nervous.
Maj. William Sherman Foster: [an Arab walks over to the body and spits in his face. Suddenly Segrain shoots the Arab at point blank range. Everyone is pointing weapons at everyone] One of my men got mervous.
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Movie Connections:

Version of Legionnaire (1998) more

Soundtrack:

Plaisir d'amour more


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11 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
Great cast AND really good movie, 2 November 2000
8/10
Author: sm.starman from Montréal, Québec

MARCH OR DIE has one impressive cast: Gene Hackman, Terence Hill (in one of his rare movie that you can take seriously), Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow, Ian Holm...

Great script that has everything well balanced: humor, action, suspense, drama. It will please those who like good war movies, those who like historical movies, and those who like just plain good movies!

This is the ultimate movie about one of the ultimate elite troop in history: the Légion Étrangère.

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