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Directed by William Wellman and released in 1928, The Legion of the Condemned is a film centered on the Lafayette Escadrille, a famous unit of American volunteer pilots who flew for France during World War I. The movie, which featured Gary Cooper, marked another collaboration between Wellman and writer John Monk Saunders, following their earlier success with the aviation drama Wings.1