Soldiers of Fortune(1919)

"Strangers in a strange land, face to face with death in a hundred forms, they never waver."

Overview

Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho. General Mendoza, the unscrupulous head of the army, unsuccessfully tries to persuade President Alvarez, and then Clay, to divide the spoils of the contract.