Word: zinderneuf
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...breathlessly the mystery over who stole that sapphire of sapphires, the Blue Water. Both will be apt to find the fraternal devotion of the Gestes rather mawkish, Actor Gary Cooper something short of the Beau ideal. Although the desert suspense of the film's opening at desolate Fort Zinderneuf and the starkness of the dead men propped up in the embrasures (both copied take for take from the 1926 picture) are still slick, and Actor Brian Donlevy outvillains his predecessor Noah Beery, Beau Geste illustrates the truth that, in recapturing some of the virtues of their original, remakes usually...
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