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- 1939
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
- 1939
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
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.
Directed By: William A. Wellman
Written By: Robert Carson, Percival Christopher Wren
- 1939
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
- 1939
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
Beau Geste
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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.
Directed By: William A. Wellman
Written By: Robert Carson, Percival Christopher Wren
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
69
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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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.
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.
Gary Cooper enacts the title role with quiet magnificence in this superb adventure tale loaded with drama, action, and mystery.
Spirited performances don’t / quite redeem the melodramatic contrivances of this often-filmed piece of romantic nonsense. But the Moroccan desert (actually Arizona) looks great, and at the very least, this Geste is leagues better than the 1966 remake with Telly Savalas.
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.
Mr. Wellman's film seems dominated by the tremendous shadow of its predecessor.
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