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Beau Geste

"Hard lives, quick deaths, undying love!"

Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.

Top Cast

  • Ronald Colman

    Ronald Colman

    Michael 'Beau' Geste

  • Neil Hamilton

    Neil Hamilton

    Digby Geste

  • Ralph Forbes

    Ralph Forbes

    John Geste

  • Alice Joyce

    Alice Joyce

    Lady Patricia Brandon

  • Mary Brian

    Mary Brian

    Isabel Rivers

  • Noah Beery

    Noah Beery

    Sgt. Lejaune

  • Norman Trevor

    Norman Trevor

    Maj. de Beaujolais

  • William Powell

    William Powell

    Boldini

  • George Regas

    George Regas

    Maris

Overview

Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.

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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    7 Jun 6, 2022

    Three brothers are being brought up by their ostensibly wealthy aunt at her country home. Her estranged husband, however is bleeding them dry. Many years pass and the boys grow to respectable manhood. Then a cable arrives asking her to arrange to value their last asset - the famous "Blue Water" sapphire. She has it fetched from the safe, but suddenly the lights go out - and the jewel is gone. Only the young men and the butler are in the room - who could have taken it? Next morning, all three have admitted the theft and have absconded to join the French Foreign Legion! They are posted to a remote fort under the command of the brutal "Lejaune" (Noah Beery) who hears tell of their stolen jewel and conspires to pinch it from whichever of the "Geste" boys has it... It's a cleverly contructed story, this. Even though we, the audience, have a pretty good idea what really happened, there is still a hint of jeopardy as their travails in the desert against their ruthless sergeant, the heat - and the marauding tribesmen - gathers quite a rapid pace. In theory Ronald Colman ("Beau") takes top billing, but together with his on-screen siblings Neil Hamilton ("Digby") and Ralph Forbes ("John") they all, pretty much equally, keep this exciting adventure story moving along a-pace , with plenty of action and grand cinematography (ok, Arizona - not Morocco). There were plenty of talkie version of this film made subsequently, but none quite as good...

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