Movie review of Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion

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Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion - Bud Abbott - Lou Costello

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950) starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

In Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion Bud Jones (Bud Abbott) and Lou Hotchkiss (Lou Costello) are wrestling promoters whose star attraction, Abdullah, skips town to return to his home in Arabia. While scouring the desert in search of Abdullah, Bud and and Lou inadvertently purchase slave girl Nicole Dupre, and with equal inadvertence join the Foreign Legion. In their own bumbling, inept fashion, our heroes manage to foil a desert uprising fomented by Shiek Hamud El Khalid and traitorous Legion Sergeant Axmann (Walter Slezak).
The film’s highlights include an opening scene parody of pre-rehearsed wrestling matches (shades of the WWE), a "mirage" routine capped by one of the punniest vaudeville punchlines in history, and a runaway-jeep routine at the finale.