BEAU GESTE (1926) 1/10

Silent version of BEAU GESTE starring Ronald Coleman.

In Italian w/ English subtitles added by me. I hope the translations are decent. The print looks like crap, but it's better than nothing.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• beau
• geste
• ronald
• colman
• silent
• film
• movie

[rcbpiccolo]

Could you please tell me what music you used for this?

[hwbanger]

@rcbpiccolo The music came with the film. I don't know who composed it.

[hwbanger]

Typo Alert: At 5:20 "...till closed" should be "...still closed."

[Danazawa]

WHY cant we get a remastered DVD release of this movie? There is only one silent Ronald Colman picture available, but he was an enormous silent star!

[vinidici]

I am pretty much done exchanging hostilities with you, JR--pretty much done, in fact, with spending overmuch time at message boards (I'm only replying because of notification services via my e-mail account). But what I don't get about you is how you can rip Coop apart the way you do when elsewhere, under other screen names, you praise him, esp. for "High Noon." You even have a Gary Cooper video in your "favorites" on one of your channels here at YouTube!

[lorrainewands]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[usnavysss]

@BlackCountryPuddler

Am joining the Marines once my court cases are over the navy denied me due to a cirminal offense I was chardged with bs my dream was crushed lol now God Help the Marines lol the only branch that will except me fuckn life wow can't even join the dam army just because to many tickets and chrges on my record and lol you made it worse haha.

[BlackCountryPuddler]

@usnavysss God help the US Navy if you are still in mate....

[NoirFemme]

@hemming57 Gary Cooper starred in the 1939 remake. Incidentally, he also starred in the 1928 sequel to this film, Beau Sabreur.

[hemming57]

Where's Gary Cooper?

[Tokopol]

@CrispinFlora Presumably it was near an oasis or a trade route. It would have been useless if it was truly in the middle of nowhere.

[usnavysss]

@CrispinFlora

FFL do that type of stuff due to france,were ever french foreign needs are FFL have to protect so for instance is theres a french car some where that belongs to france they have to fight and die for that car and if they die oh well some foreigners died,french standard army never does the hard stuff only Foreign Legion.

[toryroseiii]

I can't hear it

[CrispinFlora]

A French foreign legion outpost out in the middle of nowhere (desert!) Never understood why? Were they trying to establish diplomacy -- trying to set up an ambassador outpost? Trying to extend their stronghold -- or simply just out looking for a fight/trouble--What were the French really trying to do? There was a time when using the word IF -- you were referring to the Irish and French people-- Two of the toughest people in the world-- I Wonder how true?!?.

[classicjo1]

Thank you. I always wanted to see the silent version of this! It is great

[BannerBombers]

This is such a marvelous version. The 1939 version - which is terrific - is basically a scene for scene shot of this. Colman, who we tend to think of as a sophisticate, is outstanding as an adventurer.

[aleixdorcabis]

Many thanks to hwbanger... I was curious about this film and once I knew it was available here (through Wikipedia) I could not refrain to see it all.

Great performances... specially William Wellman as Boldini... but also a great Lejaune!!!.

Thanks again.

[bchfront]

JohnRogersly

"Evil bisexuals" -- The homosexual Cary Grant -- you're just a man whose in love with the whole world, clearly! A very Merry Xmas --by the way, watch out fot those three Christmas Eve visitors, Larry, Moe & Curly -- yhey're probably evil bisexuals!

[JohnRogersly]

I liked "High Noon", not Cooper. He was OK in "Vera Cruz" but that was Burt Lancaster's movie all the way. He was simply too old for "Man of the West". Cooper would at least have been better than that hilariously miscast homosexual Cary Grant in "The Howards of Virginia", one of the worst movies I ever saw.

[vinidici]

Cooper's father was a British immigrant to the U.S. Coop himself spent some prep school years in the UK, later to return to the States with an accent that made him the object of ridicule among his peers. He certainly did have SOME knowledge of "English gentlemen." But I'd have to admit someone like Doug Fairbanks Jr or even Errol Flynn would probably have been better suited (except Flynn was "Warner Brothers property" and doubless was never presented the opportunity to be in "Beau Geste.")

[JohnRogersly]

Cooper was an evil bisexual who forced Patricia Neal to abort his child. His supposed interpretation of an English gentleman sucked.

[vinidici]

I'm guessing you'd agree that Brian Donlevy was choice casting as Sgt Markov, though, right?

[vinidici]

Whatever, JR, what-EVER! [insert "rolleyes" icon here--> ]

[JohnRogersly]

And Cooper SUCKED in the film.

[vinidici]

Interestingly enough, Cooper starred in the 1939 remake in Ronald Colman's role!

[vinidici]

Corrections: Colman would thrive INTO the talkie era and Neil HAMILTON, later in life, co-starred in Batman. Forgot to mention another great--William Powell, who plays the NOT-so-great, weasly Boldini!

Now, if only we could get another Colman silent posted on YouTube: "The Winning of Barbara Worth" (1925). This is the picture introduces (and co-stars) Gary Cooper!