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5.7/10   201 votes
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Release Date:
7 September 1966 (USA) more
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Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa... more | add synopsis
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A color re-make of the classic Wren story more (7 total)

Cast

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Guy Stockwell ... Beau Geste
Doug McClure ... John

Leslie Nielsen ... Lieutenant De Ruse

Telly Savalas ... Sergeant Major Dagineau
David Mauro ... Boldini
Robert Wolders ... Fouchet
Leo Gordon ... Krauss

Michael Constantine ... Rostov
Malachi Throne ... Kerjacki
Joe De Santis ... Beaujolais (as Joe DeSantis)
X Brands ... Vallejo
Michael Carr ... Sergeant
George Keymas ... Platoon sergeant
Patrick Whyte ... Surgeon
Jeff Nelson
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Runtime:
103 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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There are no female speaking parts in this movie. more
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John: For God's sake, Fouchet, what are they doing to him?!
Fouchet: It's better not to know.
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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
A color re-make of the classic Wren story, 8 August 2004
Author: frederickzirin-1 from Virginia Beach, Virginia

Leslie Nielsen, in one of his few serious actor parts, dies off too quickly in this color extravaganza, leaving Telly to rampage and wreak sadistic treatment on those under his command. Dean Stockwell and Doug McClure, "Americans", try to do their parts well, but, they just didn't strike me as the best choices, at the time, for their roles. The color treatment, uniforms, and action sequences are reminiscent of other blazing gun battle scene loaded movies, but nothing sterling or Oscar-winning here, except, maybe, Savalas, as the contemptible despot. Movie length could also have been better, too much was left out, even for an adapted story from Hollywood. Still, I would like to see this again in widescreen DVD, or even VHS. But, where would I find a good original copy ? It seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth, if it ever existed at all !

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