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Maj. William Sherman Foster:
[Recounting bits of his past, in a somewhat rambling manner, to a prostitute who has been sent to his room]
I was in Morocco for 12 years. Do you know what a trench is? I dug trenches all over Europe. I ate in them, and I slept in them... I should have been a general in the U.S. Army. I was named after a general - - William Sherman... The Legion is my army now. Not the *vaunted* army of America - those bastards threw me out. All I did was tell them what I thought of them
[Recounting bits of his past, in a somewhat rambling manner, to a prostitute who has been sent to his room]
I was in Morocco for 12 years. Do you know what a trench is? I dug trenches all over Europe. I ate in them, and I slept in them... I should have been a general in the U.S. Army. I was named after a general - - William Sherman... The Legion is my army now. Not the *vaunted* army of America - those bastards threw me out. All I did was tell them what I thought of them
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I was in Morocco for 12 years
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Do you know what the trenches
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I dug trenches all over Europe
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I ate in them and I slept in them
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I should have been a general in the US Army
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I was named after a general William Sherman
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Slap it off the lamp
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No
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Do you please sir
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Yes that's right
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The Legion is my army now
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Not the vaunted army of America
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Those bastards threw me out
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All I did was tell them what I thought of them
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Movie Summary
During the 1920s, French Foreign Legion Major William Foster's (Gene Hackman's) unit is protecting an archaeological dig, but the discovery of an Arab sacred burial site prompts the angry Arab tribes to attack Foster's small garri...
