Legionnaire
A fugitive from a killer. A remote outpost. A fight to the death.
Overview
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.
- Budget
- $20,000,000
- Revenue
- $67,900,000
- Production
- Quadra Entertainment
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Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Alain Lefevre
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Luther
Steven Berkoff
Sgt. Steinkampf
Nicholas Farrell
Mackintosh
Jim Carter
Lucien Galgani
Daniel Caltagirone
Guido Rosetti
Joseph Long
Maxim
Joe Montana
Julot
Kamel Krifa
Abd-El Krim
David Hayman
Recruiting Sergeant
Derek Lea
Gendarme #1
Annette McLaughlin
Gangster's Mou (uncredited)
Nosher Powell
Soldier
Chloe Treend
Can Can Girl (uncredited)
Paul Kynman
Rolf Bruner
Anders Peter Bro
Lt. Charlier
Crew
- Director
- Peter MacDonald
- Cinematography
- Douglas Milsome
- Composer
- John Altman
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Filipe Manuel Neto
April 25, 2023
**The best Van Damme movie, for me.** I picked up this movie by chance, right at the beginning, and I watched it. I liked the style, the atmosphere, and the fact is that the film turned out to be very good. The film begins when a boxer, who should have lost a fight, decides not to comply with the agreement, harming some mobsters, who go after him to kill him. In order to escape and hide, he enlists in the Foreign Legion and goes to Morocco, where he will have to survive a commission in times …
Wuchak
May 24, 2023
**_Jean-Claude Van Damme adventure in the Moroccan desert_** In 1925, a boxer in Marseille (Van Damme) makes some big enemies and so joins the French Foreign Legion in which he’s assigned to Morocco during the Rif war to defend a desert outpost against Abd el Krim’s Berber guerillas. “Legionnaire” (1998) begins like “The Cotton Club” (1984) before settling into a plot reminiscent of “The Dirty Dozen” (1967) with the North African milieu of “March or Die” (1977) or “Khartoum” (1966), not to…