Beau Geste News

SO WHAT could they do during those first wartime winter nights when the main entertainment was the wireless? The BBC Home Service offered a seemingly endless stream of record programmes interrupted from time to time by talks, religious broadcasts, Sandy MacPherson at the theatre organ and more Sandy MacPherson at the theatre organ then more ...

Academy Award winners Gary Cooper and Ray Milland star along with Robert Preston in the epic adventure Beau Geste.

After Kirk Douglas helped break the Hollywood blacklist by hiring the well-known radical Dalton Trumbo to write the screenplay for 1960's "Spartacus," Douglas teamed up again with Trumbo on "Lonely Are the Brave." But that excellent film, from 1962, which Trumbo adapted from Edward Abbey's novel and stars Douglas as a cowboy who doesn't fit in with ...

The theft of an enormous gem, the Blue Water, sends the three notoriously adventuresome Geste brothers into the French Foreign Legion.

Every Sunday, Film School Rejects presents a movie that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it.

This week, we start with some old-timers: Coming to DVD. Universal Home Entertainment continues with its engaging "Adventure Singles: Universal Backlot Series," an ongoing look at some old, and some very old, movies worthy of re-examination. The last two named titles have been plucked from Universal's library of old Paramount films.

Judge Dan Mancini was kicked out of the French Foreign Legion when he insisted on wearing a baseball cap instead of a kepi.

Brooklyn is a great place to have been born in, and is as well a great place to leave from." These words, spoken by Susan Hayward after she was well established in Hollywood, give you an idea of her feeling toward the "asphalt jungle" she struggled through for her first 19 years.

The Movie: 1939 is often famously bandied about as "The Greatest Year in Film History." Headed by the marquee value of Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz , the complete list of classic films released that year is so extensive as to be positively mind boggling.

With the arrival of the Production Code in the 1930s, a chill descended on Hollywood that lasted for decades.