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‘Beau Geste‘ is the ultimate boy‘s adventure story— if you were a boy in 1924. The story itself opens with a double mystery: What happened at this fort in the middle of the desert? And who stole the Blue Water? As intriguing & action-packed as it is, it is also a dated tale where honor & chivalry look like snobbishness, racism and misogyny now.

IMHO, ‘The Four Feathers‘ (by A.E.W. Mason; 1902) is better in all ways

Sadly, I only dimly recall a parody version of this movie from the 1970s, ‘The Last Remake of Beau Geste‘ but I‘ve always wanted to read this Classic tale of the French Foreign Legion. This edition is narrated by the late Geoffrey Howard and opens with a rather macabre scene at the outpost.