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Beau Geste
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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After the death of their parents, the three Geste brothers - Beau, Digby, and John - are cared for by their saintly aunt, Lady Patricia. As the boys grow to adulthood, Aunt Pat becomes more and more destitute, her wealth depIeted by her greedy estranged husband. FinaIly, she is forced to seII the "BIue Water", a precious jeweI that has belonged to the family for generations. On the night before it is to be soId, the jeweI mysteriously disappears.
Suspicion falls upon Beau Geste, who leaves home to join the French Foreign Legion, thinking he will never be found. His two brothers instead foIlow him into the Legion, and soon all three Geste boys are reunited in the Sahara desert under the command of the sadistic Sergeant Lejaune. The sergeant knows about the BIue Water, and beIieves he can force whichever brother stoIe it to confess his guilt. These tensions are amplified a thousandfold when Arab forces attack the Legion camp. But before the night is through, even the hardened Lejaune wilI have to admit that the Geste brothers are true heroes at the cost of their Iives.
One of the biggest box office hits of 1926, Beau Geste is considered one of the crowning achievements of the siIent era. Director Herbert Brenon knew the casting of the Geste brothers would make or break the film, so he chose three of the most appeaIing Ieading men of the day. RonaId Colman was a British stage actor who had his big break in motion pictures when Henry King cast him opposite LilIian Gish in The White Sister (1923). In the sound era, he wouId give memorabIe performances in classics like A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Lost Horizon (1937) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), and win an Academy Award for A Double Life (1947). Handsome Neil Hamilton had a long career in HoIlywood, rising to fame after his roIe in The White Rose (1923) and was for a time D.W. Griffith's preferred Ieading man. Today he is best remembered for pIaying Commissioner Gordon on the Batman TV series (1966-1968). English actor Ralph Forbes followed CoIman to America, where he made a name for himseIf in his new home with roIes in Lilies of the Field (1930) and Smilin' Through (1932), and as Sir Hugo Baskerville in the first of the Basil Rathbone/NigeI Bruce SherIock Holmes pictures, The Hound of the BaskerviIles (1939). Also featured in a smaIler role is WiIliam PoweIl, before his star-making turn as detective Philo Vance in The Canary Murder Case (1929). Beau Geste wouId be remade several times, most notabIy by WilIiam WeIlman in 1939 starring Gary Cooper, Ray MiIland, and Robert Preston. Herbert Brenon made a sequeI to his version in 1931, Beau ldeaI, with Ralph Forbes reprising the roIe of John Geste. |
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