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Maj. William Sherman Foster:
[El Krim and some of his tribesmen have stopped the train on which Major Foster and his Legionnaires are traveling]
I have orders to continue the excavation at Erfoud. El Krim:
And I have orders from higher authority to stop you... from Allah. I marvel at the audacity of the French. They think they have the right to divide up other lands, peoples. You can bring 10,000 trains of Legionnaires - you still will not take anything from our homeland. El Krim:
[Making a sweeping gesture, and continuing in an ominous tone]
The desert welcomes you, Foster
[El Krim and some of his tribesmen have stopped the train on which Major Foster and his Legionnaires are traveling]
I have orders to continue the excavation at Erfoud. El Krim:
And I have orders from higher authority to stop you... from Allah. I marvel at the audacity of the French. They think they have the right to divide up other lands, peoples. You can bring 10,000 trains of Legionnaires - you still will not take anything from our homeland. El Krim:
[Making a sweeping gesture, and continuing in an ominous tone]
The desert welcomes you, Foster
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I've orders to continue the excavations at Erfoud
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And I have orders from higher authority to stop you
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From Allah
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I marvel at the audacity of the French
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They think they have the right to divide up other lands peoples
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You can bring 10 000 trains of legionaries
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You still will not to take anything from our homeland
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The desert welcomes you Foster
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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...

