In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.
Gina Lollobrigida
as Sylvia Sorrego / Helena Ricci
Jean-Claude Pascal
as Pierre Martel
Arletty
as Blanche
Raymond Pellegrin
as Mario
Peter van Eyck
as Fred
Jean Témerson
as Xavier Noblet
Jean Hébey
as Police commissioner
Jo Dest
as Karl, boss of the bistro
Paul Amiot
as Captain (uncredited)
Odette Barencey
as Gertrude (uncredited)
Charles Bayard
as (uncredited)
Gérard Buhr
as Legionnaire (uncredited)