and smuggle him to a port where he may leave French North Africa and desert the Legion. Bob and his two friends Muggsy and Bilgey desert themselves to bring Don back. They track and ambush the party killing one of the Arabs, however the survivor brings reinforcements who capture the Legionnaires. The Shiek initially treats his captives kindly; in order to obtain information. He then uses the opportunity to have Don teach his men how to assemble and use the Hotchkiss M1914 machine guns that they captured from the Legion. This is beyond Don's knowledge but the Shiek knows of Bob's expertise and tortures Don until Bob performs these duties. Bob agrees when Don is released. Bob has his party assemble the weapons but modify all but two of the machine guns by filing the extractors down so they will break after a few rounds are fired and jam the weapons. Meanwhile Nina arrives and sees that the Shiek has not got Don out of the country and instead plans to wipe out the French. Though trusted by the Shiek, Nina proves herself loyal to France by escaping and warning the Legion of the Shiek's proposed attack on a strategic French fort. The Shiek plans his assault with fire support from the two machine guns manned by the legionnaires who are offered their freedom to switch sides. To ensure their loyalty they are covered by the two other machine guns that Bob has sabotaged. As the fort is attacked, the four disgraced Legionnaires turn their machine guns on the Shiek and his horde of insurgents. Cast Ralph Forbes ... Bob Carter Ben Alexander ... Don Carter Hala Linda ... Nina De Bernay Roy D'Arcy ... Sheik Ibrahim-Ul-Ahmed Paul Hurst ... Muggsy Jimmy Aubrey ... Bilgey George Regas ... Sgt. Garcia Frank Leigh ... Colonel Laurente Notes External links AllMovie.com Legion of Missing Men available for free download at Internet Archive 1937 films American black-and-white films Monogram Pictures films 1937 adventure films Films about the French Foreign Legion Films directed by Hamilton MacFadden Films set in deserts American action adventure films American romance films 1930s action films 1930s romance films Films set in Morocco 1930s English-language films 1930s American films