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Ray Milland, Gary Cooper, and Robert Preston dressed in French Foreign Legion uniforms sit together smiling in a scene from the 1939 film Beau Geste.
Ray Milland, Gary Cooper, and Robert Preston in Beau Geste (1939) (From left) Ray Milland, Gary Cooper, and Robert Preston in Beau Geste (1939).

Beau Geste

film by Wellman [1939]
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Beau Geste, American action-adventure film, released in 1939, that was based on the 1924 novel of the same name by Percival C. Wren. Its acclaimed cast featured four future winners of Academy Awards for best actor or actress: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, and Broderick Crawford. The tale involves three adventuresome British brothers orphaned at an early age and later raised by their aristocratic aunt, Lady Brandon, whose ward is the beautiful Isobel (played...

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