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It's a spoof to end all spoofs as Marty Feldman shatters the Gary Cooper/French Foreign Legion classic in The Last Remake of Beau Geste. Set in England and Morocco in 1906, Feldman's "remake" mocks all the do-or-die extravaganzas we've known and loved as he portrays Digby, identical twin brother to Michael York's stalwart Beau Geste. Joining in the desert lunacy are a vast array of stars including Peter Ustinov, Terry-Thomas, Ann-Margret as the boy's seductive stepmother, and James Earl Jones...

"I never killed a man who didn't try to kill me first." Rock Hudson portrays John Wesley Hardin in The Lawless Breed , an account of the outlaw's life, published after his release from prison in 1896. Abused by his stern preacher father, Wes leaves home hoping to make his way in the world and marry his fiancée (Mary Castle). His efforts lead to a fight in a gambling establishment where he kills a man in self-defense and is forced run from the law. When a group of men murder his fiancée, Wes is...

Deanna Durbin shines in 100 Men and a Girl , a delightful story of an inventive and determined young woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. The daughter of an unemployed musician, Patricia Cardwell (Durbin), decides she will persuade conductor Leopold Stokowski to help her launch an orchestra that will employ her widowed father and 99 other out-of-work musicians. Though faced with this seemingly impossible task, Patricia leads her unemployed orchestra to the home of the...

The wartime espionage thriller Five Graves to Cairo , starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter, marks Billy Wilder’s second directorial effort. John J. Bramble Tone), the sole survivor of a British tank crew, makes his way to a desolate desert town where he is given refuge by a hotel owner (Akim Tamiroff) and a French hambermaid (Baxter) who prepare to receive General Erwin Rommel (Erich Von Stroheim) and his German staff. Posing as the hotel's waiter, Bramble attempts o infiltrate Rommel's inner...