Beau Geste (1939 film)

Beau Geste is a 1939 Paramount Pictures actionadventure motion picture starring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, and Susan Hayward.

The film opens up with a company of French Foreign Legionaries approaching a fort. From a distance it is perceived to be occupied, but upon closer inspection the bodies representing are found to be dead, only mounted for deception. However, a lone shot is fired from inside and two people investigate. They separate and one goes missing. The second man finds two bodies that are not staged like the rest and a death note on one of the bodies admitting to the stealing of a valuable sapphire called the Blue Water. After the second man leaves the fort to inform his superior, the fort is suddenly set on fire.Fifteen years earlier, Lady Brandon Heather Thatcher, wife of absent spendthrift Sir Hector Brandon, and the three adopted Geste brothers, Beau Gary Cooper, Digby Robert Preston and John Ray Milland, her ward Isobel Rivers Susan Hayward, and estate heir Augustus Brandon are introduced. Almost fifteen years pass showing them grown up. They learn that Sir Hector Brandon intends to sell the Blue Water, leaving nothing left for the estate, the children and Lady Brandon. At Beaus request, the gem is brought out for one last look when suddenly the lights go out and the jewel disappears. All present proclaim their innocence, but first Beau and then Digby depart without warning, each leaving a confession that he committed the robbery. John reluctantly parts from his beloved Isobel and goes after his brothers. ........

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