The dissolute Count Pierre Tornai, having dissipated his fortune in Paris, embezzles embassy funds while intoxicated; and after spending his last penny on a dancer, he contemplates suicide but is persuaded to enlist in the Foreign Legion. Based on the 1922 play Der Legionër by Lajos Biró.

"Millions of girls would walk miles for a Sheik- but the desert girls deserted their Sheiks for this Silent Lover!.. And why not- he outfought them- outrode them- out-romanced them!"