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Beau Geste is an adventure novel by British writer P. C. Wren, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a relative. Published in 1924, the novel is set in the period before World War I.
Beau Geste is a 1939 American adventure film starring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, and Susan Hayward. Directed and produced by William A. Wellman, the screenplay was adapted by Robert Carson, based on the 1924 novel of the same title by P. C. Wren.
Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire. Beau, John, and Digby Geste are three inseparable, adventurous brothers who have been adopted into the wealthy household of Lady Brandon.
Full movie. Major de Beaujolais leads a French Foreign Legion battalion across the Sahara desert to relieve Fort Zinderneuf, reportedly besieged by Arabs. When he arrives, he receives no response from the Legionnaires manning the walls, only a single shot. He realizes they are dead.
Beau Geste: Directed by William A. Wellman. With Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy. Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.
- (6.5K)
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- William A. Wellman
- 1939-07-24
Synopsis. Film opens on a column of french foreign legion troops marching through the dessert. They stop to observe outpost Zinderneuf (funny, the subtitles call it 'Internet'). The officer fires a signal into the air, and a shot is returned hitting the ground in front of him.
Brief Synopsis. Three brothers in the French foreign legion fight off murderous Arabs and a sadistic sergeant. Cast & Crew. Read More. William A. Wellman. Director. Gary Cooper. Beau Geste. Ray Milland. John Geste. Robert Preston. Digby Geste. Brian Donlevy. Sergeant Markoff. Susan Hayward. Isobel Rivers. Photos & Videos. View All. Film Details.
