| March or Die | |
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Marchordie.jpg) Theatrical release poster by Tom Jung | |
| Directed by | Dick Richards |
| Screenplay by | David Zelag Goodman |
| Story by | David Zelag Goodman Dick Richards |
| Produced by | Jerry Bruckheimer Dick Richards |
| Starring | Gene Hackman Terence Hill Max von Sydow Ian Holm Catherine Deneuve |
| Cinematography | John Alcott |
| Edited by | Stanford C. Allen O. Nicholas Brown John C. Howard |
| Music by | Maurice Jarre |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures (through Columbia-Warner Distributors[1]) |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8 million[2] |
| Box office | $3,243,088 (USA)[3][4] 373,848 admissions (France)[5] |
March or Die is a 1977 British war drama film directed by Dick Richards and starring Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow and Sir Ian Holm.
The film celebrates the 1920s French Foreign Legion. Foreign Legion Major Foster (Hackman), a war-weary American haunted by his memories of the recently ended Great War, is assigned to protect a group of archaeologists at a dig site in Erfoud in Morocco from Bedouin revolutionaries led by El-Krim (based on Moroccan revolutionary Abd el-Krim).
The song "Plaisir d'amour", a tune about lost love and regret, is played repeatedly throughout the story as the film's theme song.
- ^ "March or Die (1977)". BBFC. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
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- ^ French box office figures for 1978 at Box Office Story