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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: July 24, 1939 |
Starring:
Albert Dekker, Brian Donlevy, Broderick Crawford, Charles Barton, Gary Cooper, J. Carrol Naish, James Stephenson, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward
Summary:
Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.
It's amazing that this deeply evocative tale of courage, nobility and the price of family loyalty is the last serious remake of P.C. Wren's best-known Foreign Legion adventure novel. [27 Aug 1999]
Beau Geste has been produced with vigorous realism and spectacular sweep. Director William Wellman has focused attention on the melodramatic and vividly gruesome aspects of the story, and skimmed lightly over the episodes and motivation which highlighted Percival Christopher Wren's original novel.
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The finest of three screen versions of PC Wren's tale of heroism in the French Foreign Legion (the others were made in 1926 and 1966, the latter a travesty). Pictorially ravishing, it features a memorable opening with a fort garrisoned by corpses, and the high adventure tone carries on from there.
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The picture, rousingly directed by William Wellman, was indeed a success, but Cooper, horribly miscast as a dashing young British gallant...was embarrassingly callow, almost simpering, and he looked too old for the part.
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