The movie business in both Hollywood and France certainly extracted rich pickings from the French Foreign Legion, from Morocco to Beau Geste to Le Grand Jeu, La Bandera et al. Gabin himself was at home in North Africa having spent the entire running time of Pepe Le Moko there and apparently not learning his lesson because here he is again falling for the same femme fatale in the shape of Mireille Balin, his nemesis in both Pepe and here. Trivia buffs may find it interesting that Jean Gremillon studied music at the Scuola Cantorum in Paris at approximately the same time as Cole Porter though I can't, with my hand on my heart, claim this effected Guele d'Amour one way or the other. Gremillon certainly had his moment in the sun - Remorques, La Ciel est a vous - but his name never quite blazed as fiercely as his great contemporaries Duvivier, Carne,Feyder etc and was forgotten more easily and unfairly. This is a fine film exploring a hackneyed theme with fresh eyes and should be sought out.