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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Robert Carson (writer)
Percival Christopher Wren (novel)
Release Date:
15 September 1939 (USA) more
Tagline:
AGAIN...the three Gestes face a thousand dangers of the Sahara for each other...and love! more
Plot:
Beau, John, and Digby Geste are three inseparable, adventurous brothers who haven been adopted into the wealthy household of Lady Brandon... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. more
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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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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. more
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Continuity: John as a boy goes into the pond to get the boats and is wounded by one of the cannon. The wound is visible before the canon fires. more
Quotes:
[Lt. Martin is bed-ridden with a fever]
Markoff:
How do you feel tonight, Lieutenant?
Lt. Martin:
I'm dying.
Markoff:
I hope not, sir.
Lt. Martin:
I'm going to die. I'll be buried under the sand and forgotten. When I was a little boy, I thought soldiers always died in battles. I didn't know there were so many soldiers... and so few battles... and so many fevers.
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Referenced in "Hope Island: Batten Down the Hatches (#1.12)" (1999) more
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A really memorably "evil" villain.. A noble protagonist.. Haunting mystery that for moments takes us ahead to the "Portrait of Jennie".. Surreal moments that remain on the thinking mind for a very long time.. Black and White composition.. What more to ask of a film?
Only a racist or a dull would fail to appreciate such a masterpiece. Strongly recommended. Study material.