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starring: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Susan Haywarddirected by: William A. Wellman
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300987487
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6300987485
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: March 01, 1992
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 4831
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: September 15, 1939
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Gary Cooper plays the oldest of three brothers who join the French Foreign Legion to cover a mysterious theft, and are soon caught up in high adventures. The opening scene in a fort full of corpses sticks in the memory forever, and Brian Donlevy's role as a sadistic sergeant makes a striking impression as well. Director William Wellman (Wings), a veteran pilot of World War I, drew--as he often did--upon the authenticity of his own experiences in battle to give this film a measure of reality. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Classic adventure movie
A great adventure movie for film buffs who love classic old films. It is about the French foreign legion and the exploits of 3 adventurous young men. One is accused of stealing and to avoid prosecution they all leave home and join up. Lots of action. It is nice to see movies without bad words, sex scenes, and movies enhanced by computers. There is just great character development, and you end up caring for all three, and eventually find out why there was no theft in the first place.
Rating: - Legion Classic
This 1939 classic; a remake of the 1926 film of the same name and starring (Ronald Coleman) and which runs about 11 minutes longer is superior by far! Abundant adventure and action..the ultimate Legion Classic. It captures the adventure genre as well as anything ever put to celluloid! It has lost none of its allure since I first saw it as a child thirty odd years ago! The three lead roles;Gary Cooper(Beau Geste), Ray Milland( John), and Robert Preston (Digby) are a casting coup which makes this ... Read More
Rating: - Terrific cast.
Intriguing from the start, this adventure begins at the end of the story, with a foreign legion troop arriving to reinforce a fort in the desert, to find it defended by dead men. How it got that way unfolds in a flashback story of the three adopted Geste Brothers played by
Gary Cooper (Sgt. York), Ray Milland (Panic In Year Zero), and Robert Preston (The Music Man, in a very early role here) who join the French Foreign Legion after a valuable jewel is stolen from their adoptive family.
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Rating:  - sand in my shoes ...
there seemed to be a fascination with placing trios of men in this type of setting back in the 1930s; this is a bit better than "lives of a bengal lancer" (my review forthcoming) but its not in the league with the best of the ilk "gunga din". still, it is a grand adventure with gary cooper, ray milland, and robert preston involved in a tale of jewel thievery and high desert adventure with the foreign legion. still, even with those 3 wonderful hams, it is brian donlevy who steals the show in one of those ... Read More
Rating:  - this title IS available
in a boxed set released 5/2005: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007RTB9M/qid=1124073130/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4913920-8835248?v=glance&s=dvd
I give the set a 5; excellent sampling of Cooper.
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