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Have You Ever Seen · July 10 · 34 min

Beau Geste

The French Foreign Legion called the 3 Geste boys and they trekked off to Africa to end up in William Wellman's tense adventure flick. It's an action-war film that ends with a long, but well-paced siege inside a fort. Gary Cooper is miscast as the title character (he's too old and too American), but he has pretty good chemistry with Ray Milland and Robert Preston, who play his brothers. Susan Hayward is briefly in this too, although Brian Donlevy steals the movie as a jerk sergeant...and got an Oscar nomination for it. There's also a movie-long mystery here after someone steals their benefactor's expensive sapphire. But who...and why?! So tune in for episode #750 as white bros go on assignment in Africa and play war with the locals in Beau Geste. Subscribe to Have You Ever Seen in your app. Jot down a nice review and rate the show too. How do you get in touch? Well, I'm "@moviefiend51" on Twitter, "Ryan-Ellis" on Bluesky and "RyanHYES" on Letterboxd. Prefer email? Well, that's "haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com."

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The French Foreign Legion called the 3 Geste boys and they trekked off to Africa to end up in William Wellman's tense adventure flick. It's an action-war film that ends with a long, but well-paced siege inside a fort. Gary Cooper is miscast as the title character (he's too old and too American), but he has pretty good chemistry with Ray Milland and Robert Preston, who play his brothers. Susan Hayward is briefly in this too, although Brian Donlevy steals the movie as a jerk sergeant...and got an Oscar nomination for it. There's also a movie-long mystery here after someone steals their benefactor's expensive sapphire. But who...and why?! So tune in for episode #750 as white bros go on assignment in Africa and play war with the locals in Beau Geste.

Subscribe to Have You Ever Seen in your app. Jot down a nice review and rate the show too. How do you get in touch? Well, I'm "@moviefiend51" on Twitter, "Ryan-Ellis" on Bluesky and "RyanHYES" on Letterboxd. Prefer email? Well, that's "haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com."

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