TEN TALL MEN (1951)

Typical Oriental adventure film in Morocco.

Director Willis Goldbeck’s 1951 Technicolor adventure Ten Tall Men. We just loved the Technicolor films

Here we have Burt Lancaster enjoying himself as the US sergeant, Mike Kincaid, who leads his magnificent nine friends against the marauding Riffs, commanded by the villainous Kayeed Hussein (Gerald Mohr). Kincaid kidnaps Mahla (Jody Lawrance) when he learns Hussein is planning to marry her to unite opposing tribes, and of course and Mahla is falling in love with Kincaid.

It also stars Gilbert Roland as Corporal Luis Delgado, Kieron Moore as Corporal Pierre Molier, and George Tobias as Londos.

I hadn’t known that Kieron Moore was out in Hollywood in the very early fifties but here he is. He also made another one ‘David and Bathsheba’ one of the Biblical epics of the time. Later in the fifties, he went back to Hollywood for ‘Darby O’Gill and the Little People’ – one of my favourites

He was married to the very beautiful Barbara White – I remember her in ‘Quiet Weekend’ 1946

Back to the film itself – this carefree, colourful adventure is a splendid, thoroughly entertaining showcase for the young, athletic Burt Lancaster.

.Production is by the Harold Hetch- James Hill-Burt Lancaster partnership from Norma Production that financed a lot of films , most of them starred by Burt Lancaster .

Burt Lancaster was still in his all-action period with films such as “The Flame and the Arrow”, “The Crimson Pirate” , “His Majesty O’Keefe” , “The Kentuckian”