Madeleine und der Legionär

Hildegarde Knef has been teaching in Algeria. She is preparing to return to France when five deserters from the Foreign Legion capture her. She winds up in the Casbah, escapes, and leads the police to where she was captured. Only one of the deserters is there; he is dead. She returns to France, but she will encounter one later.

Miss Knef had given up Hollywood six years earlier, when her studio, 20th Century-Fox was losing interest in her. She went to Broadway for five years and did very well, including starring in Silk Stockings opposite Don Ameche. But Hollywood still wasn't interested in her, so she returned to Germany to make this movie.... and it flopped. It's not a terrible movie, but it wasn't very good material, filled with formulaic material and with a definite anti-French attitude.