A war rages in the Sahara Desert between the French Foreign Legion and a group of Arab arms smugglers. En route to visit his girlfriend, Elaine Corday (Ruth Hall), fearless American fighter pilot Lt. Tom Wayne (John Wayne) opens fire to rescue a trio of legionnaires besieged by a sea of Arab fighters on horseback. Wayne's grateful new friends recruit him to help them in their struggle to identify a mole working for the Arabs -- a mysterious character known only as "El Shaitan."

Film: Desert Command (1946)
Studio: Mascot Pictures
Director: Armand Schaefer, Colbert Clark
Writer: Wyndham Gittens
Cast: John Wayne, Ruth Hall, Robert Frazer, Lon Chaney Jr.

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