Rogues' Regiment

Rogues' Regiment
Original film poster
Directed by	Robert Florey
Produced by	Robert Buckner
Written by	Robert Buckner Robert Florey
Starring	Dick Powell Märta Torén Vincent Price
Music by	Daniele Amfitheatrof
Cinematography	Maury Gertsman
Distributed by	Universal-International
Release dates	28 Sep 1948 (U.S.)
Running time	86 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Rogues' Regiment is a black-and-white 1948 Universal-International then topical exploitation film adventure starring Dick Powell and directed and co-written by Robert Florey. It is the first American feature film to be set in the First Indochina War.

Plot

An American Intelligence Agent and Nazi hunter is on the trail of a former SS war criminal reminiscent of Martin Bormann^[1] believed to be hiding in the French Foreign Legion in Indochina.

Max Ophüls was hoping to direct the film but was passed over in favour of Robert Florey.^[2]

Dick Powell ... Whit Corbett
Märta Torén ... Lili Maubert
Vincent Price ... Mark Van Ratten
Stephen McNally ... Carl Reicher
Edgar Barrier ... Colonel Mauclaire
Henry Rowland ... Erich Otto Heindorf
Carol Thurston ... Li-Ho-Kay
James Millican ... Cobb
Richard Loo ... Kao Pang
Philip Ahn ... Tran Duy Gian
Kenny Washington ... Sam Latch

↑ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9902EFD7163FE03ABC4851DFB4678383659EDE
↑ p.200 Bacher, Lutz Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios 1996 Rutgers University Press

Films directed by Robert Florey

1920s	The Hole in the Wall (1929) The Cocoanuts (1929) The Battle of Paris (1929)

1930s	Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) The Man Called Back (1932) Those We Love (1932) Girl Missing (1933) Ex-Lady (1933) The House on 56th Street (1933) Registered Nurse (1934) Smarty (1934) I Sell Anything (1934) I Am a Thief (1934) The Woman in Red (1935) The Florentine Dagger (1935) Going Highbrow (1935) Don't Bet on Blondes (1935) Ship Cafe (1935) The Payoff (1935) The Preview Murder Mystery (1936) Till We Meet Again (1936) Hollywood Boulevard (1936) Outcast (1937) King of Gamblers (1937) Mountain Music (1937) This Way Please (1937) Daughter of Shanghai (1937) Dangerous to Know (1938) King of Alcatraz (1938) Disbarred (1939) Hotel Imperial (1939) The Magnificent Fraud (1939) Death of a Champion (1939)

1940s	Parole Fixer (1940) Women Without Names (1940) The Face Behind the Mask (1941) Meet Boston Blackie (1941) Two in a Taxi (1941) Dangerously They Live (1941) Lady Gangster (1941) The Desert Song (1943) Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944) Man from Frisco (1944) God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) Danger Signal (1945) The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948) Rogues' Regiment (1948) Outpost in Morocco (1949) The Crooked Way (1949)

1950s	The Vicious Years (1950) Johnny One-Eye (1950)