Star Film's second movie was a story of the French Foreign Legion, "Outpost in Morocco" (1949), partly shot on location in Africa. The film was a box office disappointment. He followed this with a series of thrillers: "Johnny Allegro" (1949), directed by Ted Tetzlaff for Columbia; "Red Light" (1949), by Roy Del Ruth for United Artists; and "A Dangerous Profession" (1949), by Tetzlaff for RKO. None of these performed particularly strongly at the box office, and Raft's standing as a box office attraction had been damaged. The "Johnny Allegro" shoot went on for so long that Raft missed out on the chance to star in "The Big Steal" (1949); he was replaced by Robert Mitchum.