IMDb plot summary: Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding Arabs, and are soon in Casablanca getting decorated by the French Minister of War.
Directed by Victor Fleming. Stars Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, and Noah Beery.
Renegades tells the story of four French Legionnaires who desert and form a renegade army in the deserts of Morocco. To be honest, though, I had to go to Wikipedia to discover that much about it because this movie was such a snooze. None of these characters set themselves apart enough to have any stakes in what they go through. It was fun to see a young Myrna Loy again -- the second time I've seen her in my 1930 project -- but her character isn't very exciting either. There may be some aspects of this that other viewers may find interesting, but the film lost me entirely by about the 1/3 mark and never regained my interest.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Renegades (1930)
lost to Triangle of Sadness (#1986 → #1982)
beat A Month by the Lake (#2976 → #2978)
lost to Harry and the Hendersons (#2481 → #2472)
beat Happy Christmas (#2728 → #2733)
lost to V/H/S (#2604 → #2605)
beat The Dirty Dozen (#2666 → #2710)
lost to The Ascent (#2635 → #2623)
beat The Dark Knight Rises (#2650 → #2655)
lost to A Time to Kill (#2642 → #2639)
beat National Velvet (#2646 → #2647)
beat Red Notice (#2644 → #2648)
lost to The Hot Rock (#2643 → #2640)
Final spot: Ranked #2645/3976 on my Flickchart, 34%.
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