The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)

Actors

• James Earl Jones (actor)
• Peter Ustinov (actor)
• Gary Cooper (actor)
• Michael York (actor)
• Ann-Margret (actress)
• Spike Milligan (actor)
• Irene Handl (actress)
• Terry-Thomas (actor)
• Trevor Howard (actor)
• Roy Kinnear (actor)
• Ed McMahon (actor)
• Burt Kwouk (actor)
• Henry Gibson (actor)
• Hugh Griffith (actor)
• Jim Clark (editor)

Genres

• Adventure
• Comedy

Taglines:

A DIFFERENT kind of love story

Quotes:

Sir Hector: Damn and blast my sow of a wife, God bless her!::Crumble: And all who sail in her.

Dr. Crippen: I bear both good tidings and bad tidings. First, your wife is dead.::Sir Hector: And the bad tidings?

Digby Geste: We were identical twins, but somehow Beau was much more identical than me.

Sir Hector: She just lost her seventh husband.::Beau Geste: Lost or mislaid?

Markov: Life is as brief as a butterfly's fart, but death is something that you have forever. From now on, you will march until you drop, and when you have dropped, you will crawl. Some may consider that I am excessively cruel, but there is a reason for this cruelty: I enjoy it!

Markov: I have reason to believe it is secreted about his person.::Boldini: It's not in his pockets; I have picked them.::Markov: In that case, you will have to pick his person.

General Pecheur: Will you shut up?::Digby Geste: I'm afraid I can't answer that question, sir.

[Facing a firing squad]::Digby Geste: You expect me to talk when all I could preserve is my own measly, worthless life? TOO BLOODY RIGHT, I'LL TALK! I'll talk, I'll talk, just try and stop me!

[bidding farewell to departing soldiers]::General Pecheur: May God go with you. *I* have better things to do.

[12 year-old Beau and Digby discussing a Viking Funeral]::12 year-old Beau: Digby, will you set fire to me and bury me at sea?::12 year-old Beau: Well, alright. But not until you're dead.

The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)

Actors

• James Earl Jones (actor)
• Peter Ustinov (actor)
• Gary Cooper (actor)
• Michael York (actor)
• Ann-Margret (actress)
• Spike Milligan (actor)
• Irene Handl (actress)
• Terry-Thomas (actor)
• Trevor Howard (actor)
• Roy Kinnear (actor)
• Ed McMahon (actor)
• Burt Kwouk (actor)
• Henry Gibson (actor)
• Hugh Griffith (actor)
• Jim Clark (editor)

Genres

• Adventure
• Comedy

Taglines:

A DIFFERENT kind of love story

Quotes:

Sir Hector: Damn and blast my sow of a wife, God bless her!::Crumble: And all who sail in her.

Dr. Crippen: I bear both good tidings and bad tidings. First, your wife is dead.::Sir Hector: And the bad tidings?

Digby Geste: We were identical twins, but somehow Beau was much more identical than me.

Sir Hector: She just lost her seventh husband.::Beau Geste: Lost or mislaid?

Markov: Life is as brief as a butterfly's fart, but death is something that you have forever. From now on, you will march until you drop, and when you have dropped, you will crawl. Some may consider that I am excessively cruel, but there is a reason for this cruelty: I enjoy it!

Markov: I have reason to believe it is secreted about his person.::Boldini: It's not in his pockets; I have picked them.::Markov: In that case, you will have to pick his person.

General Pecheur: Will you shut up?::Digby Geste: I'm afraid I can't answer that question, sir.

[Facing a firing squad]::Digby Geste: You expect me to talk when all I could preserve is my own measly, worthless life? TOO BLOODY RIGHT, I'LL TALK! I'll talk, I'll talk, just try and stop me!

[bidding farewell to departing soldiers]::General Pecheur: May God go with you. *I* have better things to do.

[12 year-old Beau and Digby discussing a Viking Funeral]::12 year-old Beau: Digby, will you set fire to me and bury me at sea?::12 year-old Beau: Well, alright. But not until you're dead.

Beau Geste (1966)

Actors

• Leslie Nielsen (actor)
• Hans J. Salter (composer)
• Russell F. Schoengarth (editor)
• Telly Savalas (actor)
• Rosemary Odell (costume designer)
• Leo Gordon (actor)
• Rand Brooks (miscellaneous crew)
• Michael Constantine (actor)
• Doug McClure (actor)
• George Keymas (actor)
• Joe De Santis (actor)
• Duane Grey (actor)
• Douglas Heyes (director)
• Patrick Whyte (actor)
• Douglas Heyes (writer)

Genres

• Action
• Adventure
• Drama
• War

Quotes:

John: For God's sake, Fouchet, what are they doing to him?!::Fouchet: It's better not to know.

Sergeant Major Dagineau: [to Beau Geste] So, you couldn't wait till my back was turned. Good, because it won't be a bullet you'll get from me, but you'll beg for one before you die. I promise you.

Beau Geste (1939)

Actors

• Edith Head (costume designer)
• Gino Corrado (actor)
• George Chandler (actor)
• Stanley Andrews (actor)
• Francis McDonald (actor)
• Bob Kortman (actor)
• Harry Woods (actor)
• William LeBaron (producer)
• Alfred Newman (composer)
• J. Carrol Naish (actor)
• Gary Cooper (actor)
• James Burke (actor)
• Ronald R. Rondell (actor)
• Nestor Paiva (actor)
• Bob Perry (actor)

Genres

• Action
• Adventure
• Drama
• War

Taglines:

AGAIN...the three Gestes face a thousand dangers of the Sahara for each other...and love!
THUNDERING DRAMA! (original ad - all caps)
Three against the world...brothers and soldiers all!

Quotes:

Foreword: "The love of a man for a woman waxes and wanes like the moon, but the love of brother for brother is steadfast as the stars and endures like the word of the prophet." Arabian proverb

Markoff: Keep shooting, you scum! You'll get a chance yet to die with your boots on!

[Schwartz is shouting at the legionnaires to mutiny against Markoff]::Michael 'Beau' Geste: Wait a minute. I don't know much about mutinies, but I do know it isn't good form to plan them at the top of your voice.

Markoff: I am Sergeant Markoff. I make soldiers out of scum like you, and I don't do it gently. You're the sloppiest looking lot I've ever seen. It's up to me to prevent you from becoming a disgrace to the Regiment. And I will prevent that if I have to kill half of you with work. But the half that lives will be soldiers. I promise you!

Lt. Martin: I just witnessed that little exhibition of yours, Markoff. I don't like it!::Markoff: You have to be strict with scum like that, sir.::Lt. Martin: They're men. They have their rights, guaranteed within the regulations.::Markoff: I'll keep within the regulations, sir.::Lt. Martin: You're a good soldier, Markoff, but I doubt if you're a good sergeant. If you're not, you won't last long in the Legion. Watch your step, or I'll break you!

Markoff: And now, you scum, it's my turn. I'm going to give you a lesson in putting down an attempted mutiny that'll be the last thing you'll ever see. Maybe this'll make you die happy. Markoff thanks you. When he's an officer and has the Legion of Honor, he'll think often of the stupid, blundering pigs that put him where he is.

[the boys watch the burning model ship in the "Viking funeral"]::Beau at age 12: There. That's what I want when my turn comes. I'd give anything to have a Viking's funeral... with a dog at my feet and 'last post' blown for me. If it weren't too much trouble.::Digby at age 12: Beau, it isn't too much trouble. I'll give you one whenever you like.

[Lt. Martin is bed-ridden with a fever]::Markoff: How do you feel tonight, Lieutenant?::Lt. Martin: I'm dying.::Markoff: I hope not, sir.::Lt. Martin: I'm going to die. I'll be buried under the sand and forgotten. When I was a little boy, I thought soldiers always died in battles. I didn't know there were so many soldiers... and so few battles... and so many fevers.

[last lines]::[after she reads the letter Beau had written to explain what happened to the jewel - he has signed the letter with his name - she reads... ]::Lady Patricia Brandon: "Beau Geste"::Lady Patricia Brandon: [to John] Beau Geste... gallant gesture. We didn't name him wrong, did we?

Markoff: That's the place for our mutineers. Up on a roost, like pigeons. If I could only afford to waste them all.

Beau Geste

Cast

• Benedict Taylor
• Anthony Calf
• Jonathon Morris
• John Forgeham
• Barry Dennen
• Christopher Malcolm
• Stefan Gryff
• Bunny Reed
• Les Conrad
• Red Milner
• Andrew Lodge
• John Challis
• Barry Summerford
• Harry Fielder
• Pat Gorman
• Kenneth Owens
• Nicolas Chagrin
• John Moreno
• John Cannon
• Sally Baxter
• Nadio Fortune
• Damien Thomas
• Daniel André Pageon
• Paul Hawkins
• Wendy Williams

• Season 1
• Episode 1: (#1.1)
  A relief column led by Major de Beaujolais approaches Fort Zinderneuf, only to find the garrison app...
• Episode 2: (#1.2)
  The three brothers have returned to Brandon Abbas from university, when a valuable family heirloom, ...
• Episode 3: (#1.3)
  To protect Michael, Digby then also leaves, taking the blame in a note left for John; John, though, ...
• Episode 4: (#1.4)
  John is reunited with Michael and Digby after being sent to Oran with a draft of new recruits. Their...
• Episode 5: (#1.5)
  Boldini informs Lejaune that Michael has a stolen jewel on him. After Boldini fails to persuade two ...
• Episode 6: (#1.6)
  The column marches across country to Fort Zinderneuf; once there, Lejaune has Hank, Buddy and Digby ...
• Episode 7: (#1.7)
  Some of the men are on the point of mutinying when the fort comes under repeated attack from the Tua...
• Episode 8: (#1.8)
  John kills Lejaune in the struggle, and then flees the fort on the approach of the relief column. Di...