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15 September 1939 (USA)
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AGAIN...the three Gestes face a thousand dangers of the Sahara for each other...and love! more
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Beau, John, and Digby Geste are three inseparable, adventurous brothers who haven been adopted into the wealthy household of Lady Brandon...
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Foreign Legion
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Desert
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Jewel Theft
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
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Man, I love it!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gary Cooper | ... | Michael 'Beau' Geste |
 | Ray Milland | ... | John Geste |
 | Robert Preston | ... | Digby Geste |
 | Brian Donlevy | ... | Sgt. Markoff |
 | Susan Hayward | ... | Isobel Rivers |
| J. Carrol Naish | ... | Rasinoff |
| Albert Dekker | ... | Legionnaire Schwartz |
 | Broderick Crawford | ... | Hank Miller |
| Charles Barton | ... | Buddy McMonigal |
| James Stephenson | ... | Maj. Henri de Beaujolais |
| Heather Thatcher | ... | Lady Patricia Brandon |
| James Burke | ... | Lt. Dufour |
| G.P. Huntley | ... | Augustus Brandon (as George P. Huntley) |
| Harold Huber | ... | Legionnaire Voisin |
 | Donald O'Connor | ... | Beau at age 12 |
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112 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Charles Barton, who has a small part as Buddy McMonigal, was at the time an assistant director at Paramount, having started his career as an actor. He had had a bad experience working as an A.D. to Paramount's top director, Cecil B. DeMille, on Union Pacific (1939) and refused to work with him again when he was assigned to. Paramount "demoted" him to a bit actor on this picture as punishment. Barton soon left Paramount for Columbia where he was made a director, and never worked for Paramount again.
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Continuity: Beau's hands change position as John leaves the fort and again when Digby enters.
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[after she reads the letter Beau had written to explain what happened to the jewel - he has signed the letter with his name - she reads... ]
Lady Patricia Brandon: "Beau Geste"
Lady Patricia Brandon: [to John] Beau Geste... gallant gesture. We didn't name him wrong, did we?
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[after she reads the letter Beau had written to explain what happened to the jewel - he has signed the letter with his name - she reads... ]
Lady Patricia Brandon: "Beau Geste"
Lady Patricia Brandon: [to John] Beau Geste... gallant gesture. We didn't name him wrong, did we?
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Referenced in The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988) (TV)
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This is why we go to the movies. Great story telling, great characters, great actors, great directing, suspense, a certain pace and so on... a perfect movie. Why, oh why they don´t make movies like this anymore? Why are we treated to flicks like "King Arthur"? Have we lost it?
It´s all about adventure. Suspense, thrill, wit....Well, they would nowadays add some cruelties and that would be okay but it still would be superior to 99,9% of recent Hollywood flics.
Come back Capra, Hawks, Frankenheimer, Zinnemann, Ford, Hitchcock, Lang et al. - please come back
10/10