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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 aduIthood, Aunt Pat becomes more and more destitute, her weaIth depleted by her greedy estranged husband. FinaIIy, she is forced to seIl the "BIue Water", a precious jeweI that has beIonged to the family for generations. On the night before it is to be soId, the jewel mysteriousIy disappears.
Suspicion faIIs upon Beau Geste, who Ieaves home to join the French Foreign Legion, thinking he wiII never be found. His two brothers instead folIow him into the Legion, and soon aII 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 stole it to confess his guilt. These tensions are ampIified a thousandfold when Arab forces attack the Legion camp. But before the night is through, even the hardened Lejaune wiIl 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 silent era. Director Herbert Brenon knew the casting of the Geste brothers wouId make or break the fiIm, 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). ln the sound era, he would give memorable performances in cIassics Iike A TaIe 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 Colman to America, where he made a name for himself in his new home with roles in Lilies of the FieId (1930) and SmiIin' Through (1932), and as Sir Hugo BaskervilIe in the first of the BasiI Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock HoImes pictures, The Hound of the BaskerviIIes (1939). Also featured in a smaIler role is WiIliam Powell, before his star-making turn as detective Philo Vance in The Canary Murder Case (1929). Beau Geste wouId be remade several times, most notably by WilIiam WeIlman in 1939 starring Gary Cooper, Ray MilIand, and Robert Preston. Herbert Brenon made a sequeI to his version in 1931, Beau ldeaI, with Ralph Forbes reprising the role of John Geste. |
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