He is joined in uniform by faithful brothers John (Ray Milland) and Digby (Robert Preston), who in turn are pursued by a slimy thief (J. Years later, the grown Beau (Gary Cooper) again protects his aunt by confessing to the theft and running off to join the Foreign Legion. One of the boys, young Beau (played as a youth by Donald O'Connor), witnesses his beloved aunt (Heather Thatcher) apparently stealing a valuable family jewel in order to finance the Geste home Beau chooses to remain silent rather than disgrace his aunt. As children, the Gestes swear eternal loyalty to one another and to their family. We open on the now-famous scenes of a remote, burning desert fort, manned by the dead Foreign Legionnaires, then flash back to the early lives of the Geste brothers. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927 silent version. This second of three movie versions of P.C.
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