![]() They even gave him a western sidekick in Fuzzy Knight who played that role in many a western back in the day. ![]() That certainly was something he was familiar with having done many a B western. Former swimming champion Buster Crabbe played the title role of Captain Gallant, American expatriate serving in the Foreign Legion very much like an American cowboy hero. Within five years of this show ending the entire chunk of North Africa that used to be colored on maps the same as mother country France was several different African countries. ![]() While this was being filmed the Algerians, buoyed by what they saw the VietMinh do at Dien Bien Phu to the Foreign Legion stepped up its campaign to get the French out of North Africa. ![]() Probably the bitter end of French colonialism worked against any long run for Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion. ![]()
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