When gunfire riddles the Commandant's office, the wire that yanks off Axmann's hat can be seen.
When the group, in Axmann's Jeep, rounds the corner with the man on the hood, the wire that pulls off the bed with the man on it can be seen.
When the group is trying to escape the camp in Axmann's Jeep, it takes a bullet hole in the windshield.
Then, in the next shot from the front, the windshield is intact again.
It remains that way until they reach the fort, where more gunfire puts holes in it.
At the oasis, when Bud says "There's plenty of fish in there, boy!", he goes to sit on the big rock to take out his boot lace.
But in the very next shot he already has his lace out with a piece of bread on it.
Abbott & Costello play Bud Jones & Lou Hotchkiss, two wrestling promoters who try to track down their wayward Arabian wrestler, who has gone back home to Algiers. Upon arrival, they are tricked by a rival sheik into joining the Foreign Legion, where their lives are threatened, yet many comedic mishaps ensue, including an extended sequence of being lost in the desert, desperate for water, and seeing mirages, including an oasis of fresh water.
Sep 23, 2011 In this movie Bud and Lou get there first taste of being outside the U.S.
Slight Abbott and Costello comedy has them playing wrestling promoters whose star attraction has quit and gone home to Algiers. The duo follow after him and are tricked into joining the Foreign Legion.
Bud and Lou had previously visited the North African desert in Lost in a Harem, one of the loan out films they did for MGM in the middle 40s. I guess their home studio Universal wanted to get in the action also, so they got a second engagement in the Sahara.
You've see it before, because other movies copy a lot of its gags. From the comedy team lost in desert, one short & fat, and one skinny & at times mean, it's like seeing R2D2 and C3PO before they ever existed.
I liked it. If you never saw another A&C film, I'll bet you would like it's craziness.
I don't usually think of "Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion" as one of the boys best movies but it is. As I watched it tonight, for the hundredth time, I finally realized how truly funny this movie is.
In Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Bud and Lou head to Algieria to find a wrestler named Abdullah who left them high and dry and owing a mobster quite a bit of money. Once there, the boys get mixed up with Sheik Hamud El Khalid (Douglas Dumbrille) and draw his ire at a slave auction.
Great addition to the Abbott and Costello film canon as Bud and Lou go after a wrestler in Algiers. Soon they are hunted by a local sheik and his men and a traitor in the foreign legion...
