 "Le Grand Jeu" contributed to the series of films which used the French Foreign Legion as a colourful background.It was followed in 1935 by Julien Duvivier's "La Bandera", also scripted by Charles Spaak, though actually about the Spanish Foreign Legion.Other French films with similar background were "Un de la légion" (1936, dir.Christian-Jaque - a comedy with Fernandel) and "Les Hommes sans nom" (1937, dir.Jean Vallée).