#Beau Geste

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Silver Screen magazine, April 1940

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Ray Milland, Gary Cooper, and Robert Preston on the set of Beau Geste, 1939.

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Léa e la Palma d'oro nel 2013, France 2, Beau Geste, da Cannes, 19 maggio 2024

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Un geste anodin

Qui en dit beaucoup

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Transgender gesture, Everyone, Woman and Man and the Others

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BEAU GESTE (1939) Grade: B

For the #year1939 this was an big time adventure film. Mystery, brothers, war, it all made for a good plot. Great frame work as well. Just look at the YouTube thumbnail image!

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Chiara Mastroianni in Beau Geste (5/05/2024)

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The Last Movie I Watched...

Beau Geste (1939, Dir.: William Wellman)

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Gary Cooper as Beau Geste

Ray Milland as John Geste

Robert Preston as Digby Geste

Beau Geste (1939)

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Beau Geste - Episode Eight (19 December 1982)

At the end of the seventh episode, John Geste (Jonathon Morris) and Sergeant Major Lejaune (John Forgeham), along with a mortally wounded Beau Geste (Benedict Taylor) were the only survivors of the Tuareg assault on Fort Zinderneuf, where John then saw Lejaune robbing the body of Beau, who as it turns out had the Blue Water jewel on him all along.

This eighth episode continues John and Lejaune's confrontation, which is quickly over when John kills Lejaune with some assistance from the dying Beau. As Beau dies, he tells John to send letters to fellow brother Digby (Anthony Calf) and Aunt Patricia (Wendy Williams).

The following events then neatly tie into the events of the first half of the first episode where Major de Beaujolais's (David Sumner) relief column arrives at the fort and a bunch of mysterious things happen that no one there can quite explain. It turns out the bugler who disappeared inside the fort was Digby, who found Beau and Lejaune's bodies and then hid while attempts were made to find him, while the mysterious explosion that then followed was Digby's attempt to give Beau the Viking funeral he always wanted with what's available.

Digby then escapes into the Sahara and reunites with John and later their American friends Buddy (Barry Dennen) and Hank (Christopher Malcolm). The 4 then make their way across the desert, making an ambitious raid on a Tuareg camp along the way for supplies. Sadly Digby also dies, leaving John alone to return back to Brandon Abbas where he is reunited with his love Isobel (Sally Baxter) and his aunt.

The ending that follows is an emotional and perfect way to end the series with John reading out Beau's letter to Aunt Patricia at her request, where we finally learn a surprising truth about the Blue Water and what Beau knew about it.

After 7 episodes of sheer brilliance, this finale thankfully ends the series on a high with a final 30 minutes of engaging plot and character drama. There are some really emotional moments and the acting as ever is superb while showing the events of the first episode from Digby's perspective is a perfect way to resolve the mysteries that first episode left us and it's good to see the women at Brandon Abbas once more for the ending.

Overall, I have really enjoyed Talking Pictures TV's rerun of this truly excellent serial, just about everything about it is worthy of praise, the acting, characters, storytelling and production values are all of a very high standard throughout and I am sad now it's all over, this adaptation of P.C. Wren's story has been highly enjoyable throughout. It is truly a hidden TV treasure that I am glad to have discovered and I give all thanks to TPTV for making it happen.

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Happy birthday, Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; 27 March 1942), English film, television, and stage actor.

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Did anyone else get a bit of a gay vibe from them or is it just me?

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February passings_2: Doug McClure 5 Feb. 1995; Kirk Douglas 5 Feb. 2020; Guy Madison 6 Feb. 1996; Robert Conrad 8 Feb. 2020; John Gavin 9 Feb. 2018; Rob Sager aka Brett Mycles 25 Feb. 2007.

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Charlotte Gainsbourg in Beau Geste (24/3/24)