BIG CAST IN BIG PICTURE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19841, 16 May 1927, Page 3

BIG CAST IN BIG PICTURE

EVERY PLAYER LN “BEAU GESTE” A STAB ' In these days of big pictures and big I casts, it really wants something exI ccptional to stand out to warrant extra comment. Such a picture is “Beau Gestc,” the Paramount picture which opens a season at the Municipal Pictures to-morrow. Presented with a glowing, spectacular scene as a proc logue, the picture itself has the tense theme 0 fbrother love. The depth of love, the pathos of the scenes, and the emotion of the pcture makes tears well to the eyes. The story has been faithfully adapted from the novel by P. C. Wren, and interpreted by a cast that leaves nothing to be desired. Ronald Colman is “Geua Geste,” and Neil Hamilton and Ralph Forbes, his brothers, Digby and John. Noah Beeiy, Norman Trevor, Wiliam Powell, Alice Joyce, Alary Brian and Victor M,acLaglen are the other players who have important roles. The story centres round tho mysterious happenings at a. post of the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara. Attacked by Arabs, tho fort makes a gallant stand, and, when the releving force arrives they find only dead men there. A trumpeter disappears in the fort and the Alajor has hardly left when the fort goes up in smoke. It is mysterious. Tho three brothers Alichael. called “Beau,” Digby and John, leave the home of Brandon Abbas, because each wishes to share the blame, if any, of tho disappearance of the famous sapphire the “Blue Water.” Joining the Foreign Legion, Beau and Digby find, themselves under the command of tho brutal Lejauno at Zinderneuf. Digby is the trumpeter who scales the walls to find that Beau is dead in the fort, John missing and Lojaune with a French bayonet through his breast. He makes readv for a burial of Beau and tho major thinks that he has disappeared and certainly when he enters the fort a little later, Digby who has climbed oyer the wall and so escapes, is indied missing, but not before he has set fire to the fort to give his brother a Viking’s funeral. Out in the desert ho finds John, who, as tho last man left alive, found Lejauno robbing fno dead Beau, has killed him. But who stole the “Blue Water?” That would, spoil the whole storv and picture to toll you. Herbert Brenon. the director, deserves great credit for his still and masterly direction of this Paramount picture.*