Beau Geste ★★★½ 1939 The classic Hollywood adventure film based on the Percival Christopher Wren novel. To protect aging Lady Patricia (Thatcher), who raised the orphaned brothers, Beau Geste (Cooper) takes the blame for a jewel theft and decides to enlist in the Foreign Legion. He's followed by his brothers John (Milland) and Digby (Preston), and all face desert wars and despicable officers, including the psychotic Sgt. Markoff (Donlevy). A rousing, much-copied epic. 114m/B VHS. Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Donald O'Connor, J. Carrol Naish, Susan Hayward, James Stephenson, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford, Charles T. Barton, Heather Thatcher, James Burke, G.P. (Tim) Huntley Jr., Harold Huber, Harvey Stephens, Stanley Andrews, Harry Woods, Arthur Aylesworth, Henry (Kleinbach) Brandon, Nestor Paiva, George Chandler, George Regas;
Director:
William A. Wellman;
Writer:
Robert Carson;
Writer:
Theodor Sparkuhl, Louis Clyde Stouman, Archie Stout;
Cameo:
Alfred Newman.
