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Beau Geste is a 1966 adventure film based on the 1924 novel by P. C. Wren filmed by Universal Pictures in Technicolor and Techniscope near Yuma, Arizona and directed by Douglas Heyes. This is the least faithful of the various film adaptations of the original novel.
Beau Geste: William A. Wellman: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston: 1939 Beau Geste: Douglas Heyes: Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure, and Leslie Nielsen: 1966 The Last Remake of Beau Geste: Marty Feldman: Marty Feldman, Ann-Margret, and Michael York: 1977 Beau Geste: Douglas Camfield: Benedict Taylor, Anthony Calf, and Jonathon Morris ...
Beau Geste is an adventure novel by British writer P. C. Wren, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a relative. Published in 1924, the novel is set in the period before World War I.
He had important roles in several major motion pictures, including The War Lord (co-starring with Charlton Heston), The Plainsman, Blindfold, the leading role in Beau Geste, Tobruk, The Monitors, It's Alive and Santa Sangre. Stockwell suffered from diabetes in later years and died of its complications. He was married and divorced three times ...
Due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was also prepared. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. Based on the 1926 novel Beau Sabreur by P. C. Wren, who also wrote the 1924 novel Beau Geste ...
Beau Geste is a 1939 American adventure film starring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, and Susan Hayward. Directed and produced by William A. Wellman , the screenplay was adapted by Robert Carson , based on the 1924 novel of the same title by P. C. Wren .
It can be said that it is the French novel of the trilogy (or known as a trilogy if one takes no account of the books Good Gestes and Spanish Maine) as Beau Geste is the English one, and Beau Ideal the American one. The plot presents the dichotomy between love of country (duty) and the love of a woman (passion).
Beau Ideal is the "American" novel of the so called trilogy (which in fact spreads through five books), as Beau Geste is the "British" novel and Beau Sabreur is the "French" novel. It is a tale of "ideal and platonic love". Mainly the plot revolves around the devotion of Otis for Isobel Geste (nee Rivers).