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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.
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.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- William A. Wellman
- 1939-07-24
Beau geste is a phrase borrowed from French; the literal translation is "beautiful gesture." Beau Geste is also the title of a 1924 novel by Percival Christopher Wren, featuring three English brothers who join the French Foreign Legion to repair their family honor.
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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.
Beau Geste, novel about the French Foreign Legion by Percival C. Wren, published in 1924. The title character, whose given name is Michael, and his brothers, Digby and John, have joined the French Foreign Legion after being falsely accused of a crime. They meet many trials together in North Africa,
Recently viewed. Beau Geste: Directed by Douglas Heyes. With Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure, Leslie Nielsen, Telly Savalas. In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg attack.
