Beau Geste

Gary Cooper, Ray Milland and Robert Preston play three orphaned brothers who are raised at Brandon Abbas by their aunt Lady Patricia Brandon. When money troubles hit the household attention focuses on the Blue Water Sapphire, the last remaining wealth in... Full review

The orphan brothers Beau, John, and Digby Geste have been raised in Brandon Abbas by their dear aunt Lady Patricia Brandon (Heather Thatcher) with the also adopted Isobel Rivers and their cousin Augustus Brandon since they were children. Lady Brandon... Full review

The three Geste brothers, wards of their Aunt Patricia, go off to the Foreign Legion because they are suspected of stealing a family jewel, the Blue Water sapphire. It's a question of family honor and pride back in the day... Full review

The film gets high kudos for being well directed, well acted, and well produced. It is one of the great films of 1939 that remains entertaining nearly seventy years later. But like that other classic GONE WITH THE WIND the... Full review

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... Full review

I know this, along with Sherlock Holmes, is one of the most filmed stories ever, but the 1939 version must stand out as the best. The mood and atmosphere of the desert is captured brilliantly, the photography is excellent as... Full review

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... Full review

This fine film wears exceedingly well more than 60 years after it was made. The story of a jewel with a haunted past, a trio of gallant brothers, a beautiful girl and the French foreign Legion make for for a... Full review

People who know Julien Duvivier's "la bandera"(1935) will find analogies between the two movies.In both of them, the legion is an escape from law.The approach is different however:in "la bandera",the hero and his mates are simple,crude people.In Wellmann's work,they are... Full review

A magnificent blue sapphire is stolen from the English estate of Brandon Abbas. BEAU GESTE and his two younger brothers are all suspected of the crime. To save their family from dishonor, they each make their way to join the... Full review

Beau Geste is a classic and Coop at his best.....The film is a proper classic....A classic film in all regards is a vehicle for Gary Cooper....I wish some more attention would've been given to this wonderful film (if anything a digital restoration would've been most welcome).....It would garner Donlevy a nomination for best supporting actor..... ... Full Review

Beau Geste is a classic and Coop at his best.....The film is a proper classic....I wish some more attention would've been given to this wonderful film (if anything a digital restoration would've been most welcome).....It would garner Donlevy a nomination for best supporting actor..... ... Full Review

No one missed nominal leading lady Susan Hayward in this essentially all-male entertainment. One of the boys, young Beau (played as a youth by Donald O'Connor), witnesses his beloved aunt (Heather Thatcher) apparently stealing a valuable family jewel in order to finance the Geste home; Beau chooses to remain silent rather than disgrace his aunt. ... Full Review

In titles such as 'Casablanca,' 'Beau Geste' and 'The Sheik,' filmmakers gave audiences an adventurous, exotic -- and often politically incorrect -- taste of life a world apart. ... Full Article

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Dec 9, 2004 | On one of the documentaries included in the handsome new DVD edition of "Gone With the Wind," there's a story about the movie's first super-secret sneak preview at the Fox Theater in Riverside, Calif., two hours... ... Full Article

This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927 silent version. We open on the now-famous scenes of a remote, burning desert fort, manned by the dead Foreign... ... Full Article

Following on from a 1926 silent film version, this 1939 production of Beau Geste is based on the classic novel by English author and soldier Percival Christopher Wren. ... Full Article