![[Book #164750] Desert Legion. Alan Ladd Arlene Dahl, Richard Conte, Joseph Pevney, Georges Surdez, Lewis Meltzer Irving Wallace, starring, director, novel, screenwriters.](https://royalbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/164750.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763184319)
Desert Legion
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1953. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1953 film, showing actress Arlene Dahl. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso.
Based on Georges Surdez' 1927 novel "The Demon Caravan." A French Foreign Legion soldier discovers a lost city in the desert mountains of North Africa. A breakthrough role at Universal for actor Alan Ladd.
From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s.
8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
[Book #164750]
Price: $75.00
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