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    Last Remake of Beau Geste, The (1977)

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    How one responded toΒ The Last Remake of Beau GesteΒ depended largely on how one responded to its star, pop-eyed comic Marty Feldman (who also directed the film from a screenplay he wrote with Chris Allen, and a story he wrote with Sam Bobrick).

    As its title suggested, the film spoofed most Foreign Legion films, but particularly William Wellman’s celebrated 1939 Paramount adventure (which starred Gary Cooper). In fact, scenes from the original movie were irreverently intercut into this version.

    Feldman cast himself as Digby Geste, the twin brother of Michael York’s Beau Geste, and if the rest of the film had been consistent with this piece of inspired lunacy, he might have had a hit on his hands.

    But Feldman’s undisciplined, hit-and-miss approach to comedy ultimately let him down and, apart from a handful of amusing sight-gags, it was left to a cast that included Peter Ustinov (as the brothers’ psychotic Foreign Legion commander with interchangeable peg legs), Ann-Margret (as their conniving mother-in-law), James Earl Jones (as an Anglicised Arab), Trevor Howard (as Sir Hector Geste), Spike Milligan (as Sir Hector’s elderly servant), Terry Thomas, Roy Kinnear and Irene Handl to help bolster the fun.

    A stand-out scene has Feldman magically travel into footage from a 1939 version of the same story, resulting in a dialogue scene between Feldman and Gary Cooper.

    Dagobert ‘Digby’ Geste
    Marty Feldman
    Beau Geste
    Michael York
    Flavia Geste
    Ann-Margret
    Markov
    Peter Ustinov
    Sir Hector
    Trevor Howard
    Crumble
    Spike Milligan
    Governor
    Terry Thomas
    Sheikh
    James Earl Jones
    Miss Wormwood
    Irene Handl
    Boldini
    Roy Kinnear
    General Pecheur
    Henry Gibson
    Sheikh’s Aide & Camel Salesman
    Avery Schreiber
    Judge
    Hugh Griffith
    Isabel Geste
    SinΓ©ad Cusack
    Captain Merdmanger
    Henry Polic II

    Director
    Marty Feldman

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