Renegades (1930): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 1930, Renegades is an action and adventure film directed by Victor Fleming, running about 84 minutes. “HE LOVES HIS ENEMY...this dark enchantress who lured him to dishonor and disgrace.” — that tagline sets the tone.

What it’s about. 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. Deucalion spots Eleanor, a spy who had done him dirt and after tangling with the local gendarmes, they take her and head back for Morocco where they are charged with desertion, and have to go out and defeat some more marauding natives, and dodge the machine-gun fire directed at them by the highly-displeased Eleanor, and one thing just follows another.

Who’s in it. Renegades stars Warner Baxter as Jean Deucalion, Myrna Loy as Eleanore, Noah Beery as Thurman Machwurth and Gregory Gaye as Dmitri Vologuine, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 4.5/10, Renegades has proved divisive with audiences.

Where to watch. In US you can rent or buy it from Amazon Video. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Renegades page.

If you liked it. Fans of Renegades tend to enjoy The Dark Knight, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Inception and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.