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BEAU GESTE
First Day of Issue: March 23, 1990
First Issue Location: Hollywood, California
The original silent film of Beau Geste was made in 1926
with Ronald Coleman in the title role and Noah Beery as
the tyrannical Sgt. Makoff. Gary Cooper portrayed Beau
Geste and Brian Donleavy the sergeant in William Well-
man's 1939 remake. Now considered a classic in its own
right, the remake was at first sharply criticized for paral-
leling the 1926 original almost scene for scene. Some
reviewers promptly declared it little more than a "talking
mummy of the original." Fortunately, Newsweek and
New York's World-Telegraph praised the new picture in
glowing terms and audiences swarmed to see the three
dashing, upper-class Brothers Geste, would-be heroes
destined for tragedy played by Cooper, Ray Milland and
Robert Preston. One brother steals a precious family
jewel so their aunt won't be forced to sell it. The trio leaves
home in disgrace to contend with desert varmints and
Foreign Legion tyrant Sgt. Makoff, each Geste brother
taking the blame for the crime. In the end, only one
survives to discover the theft was unnecessary.
No. 90-11
©1990 The Maximum Card Collection
A Division of Unicover Corporation • Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007
Original painting by Tom McNeely
BEAU GESTE ©1939 by Paramount Pictures, Renewed 1966 by EMKA.
The image, likeness, and name and certain other publicity rights of the
actor Gary Cooper are used with permission of their owner, the Estate of
Gary Cooper, represented by The Roger Richman Agency, Inc.
