Beau Geste (Ronald Colman, Noah Beery). P. C. Wren's immoderately popular novel of the French Foreign Legion has been turned into a brilliant, colorful and exciting screen melodrama by Herbert Brenon. The director has not been afraid to make his romance of three brothers, who loved each other enough to sacrifice life and honor, just a bit brutal, just a little lacking in the usual rose-colors of screen romantics. As a result, the film has, in addition to an honestly exciting story and great visual beauty, something of the grime and the...
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