Beau Geste Fort Zinderneuf
The beau geste deluxe fort playset cuniversal studios this magnificent playset consist of a multi piece true 132nd scale model of the famed fort zindernuf just as it appeared in the classic film about heroic adventures savage desert tribesmen and men who laugh in the face of death.
Beau geste fort zinderneuf. The beau geste adventures of the foreign legion playset. Jack told us about a modeller who apparantly used stills from the film to make a model of fort zinderneuf and decided he would like to make a model for his 28mm foreign legion and arabs. Beau and john under the command of the cruel and sadistic sergeant markoff in fort zinderneuf in the sahara desert.
The commander at fort zinderneuf after the death of two more senior officers is the sadistic sergeant major lejaune who drives his abused subordinates to the verge of mutiny. The brothers join the foreign legion and are sent to north africa. Perhaps the most mysterious beginning of any movie is the scene at fort zinderneuf in the 1939 film beau geste.
Mmlng beau geste a story of tho french foreign legion. Fort zinderneuf is a french foreign legion outpost standing mute somewhere in the sahara. After recruit training in sidi bel abbes and some active service skirmishing with tribesmen in the south beau and john are posted to the small garrison of the fictional desert outpost of fort zinderneuf while digby and his american friends hank and buddy are sent to tanout azzal to train with a mule mounted company.
After an unsuccessful mutiny against the brutal treatment of markoff the fort is attacked by tuaregs and the men have to join forces to fight for their lives. Amongst the many films we talk about whilst passing the time and being is the 1939 film beau geste starring gary cooper ray milland robert preston brian donlevy and susan hayward. The scenario called for a location on the african desert but trouble with tho riffs madc tho co oporatlon ot the french government impossible so was decided to lay out a desert near cr home.
Upon their arrival they find that the fort has been ravaged by tuareg attacks and american beau graves guy stockwell is the only survivor. It is approached by a relief column of soldiers sent to rescue the beleaguered occupants. A column of the french foreign legion arrives at the remote fort zinderneuf having been assigned to relieve the legionnaires who had been defending the fort.
Major de beaujolais leads a relief column to fort zinderneuf and encounters a baffling and macabre series of mysteries.