Marty Feldman's farcical adaptation, "The Last Remake of Beau Geste," opening today at the K-B Cinema, is not exactly a devastating or irresistible put-down of the original's nostalgic heroic cliches and conventions, which were rendered more or less faithfully in three earlier films. In any given decade there are always several actors, British and American, who could have a swell time impersonating the extravagantly noble, self-sacrificing (and, if the truth be known, self-satisified) Geste brothers.Īt the moment Edward Fox, for example might make a sensational "Beau," the nickname of the eldest brother, Michael, whose desire to help conceal his aunt's deception leads him into theft, flight and a perilous tour of luty in the French Foreign Legion, where he is loyall if uncomprehendingly followed by siblings Digby and John. Percival Christopher Wren's 52-year-old adventure novel "Beau Geste" is such diverting valorous hokum that it's safe to assume movie versions will never cease being made.
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