Beau Geste
Thundering drama!
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- Adventure
- Drama
- War
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.
Keywords
- soldier
- based on novel or book
- fort
- desert
- cruelty
- brother
- foreign legion
- drill instructor
- north africa
- military unit
- stolen jewel
- drill sergeant
- sapphire
- military fort
- protective brothers
- brothers-in-arms
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 24, 1939
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, English, Hungarian
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount,Paramount Pictures
- Cast
- David Holt,Harvey Stephens,Duke Green,Arthur Aylesworth,Robert Preston,Harry Woods,Joe Gray,Ann Gillis,Francis McDonald,James Stephensonand 38 more
- Director
- William A. Wellman
- Producer
- William A. Wellman,William LeBaron
- Cinematography
- Archie Stout,Theodor Sparkuhl
- Music
- Alfred Newman
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0031088