Beau Geste (Motion picture) Lives of a Bengal lancer (Motion picture) Design for living. Noel Coward's design for living. Peter Ibbetson. General died at dawn.
Notes:
Cast for Design for living: Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton. Cast for Peter Ibbetson: Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, Ida Lupino, John Halliday, Douglass Dumbrille, Virginia Weidler, Dickie Moore. Cast for The General died at dawn: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, William Frawley, Dudley Digges, Akim Tamiroff, Porter Hall. Cast for Beau Geste: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, J. Carroll Naish, Donald O'Connor, James Stephenson. Cast for Lives of a Bengal lancer: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Sir Guy Standing. Design for living based on the play: Design for living / by Noel Coward. Peter Ibbetson based on the novel: Peter Ibbetson / by George Du Maurier. Beau Geste based on the novel: Beau Geste / by Percival Christopher Wren. Lives of a Bengal lancer based on the novel: Lives of a Bengal lancer / by Francis Yeats-Brown. Originally released as motion pictures from 1933-1939. Special features (disc 1): Theatrical trailer for "Peter Ibbetson" (2 min.). Special features (disc 2): Theatrical trailer for "Beau Geste" (2 min.); theatrical trailer for "Lives of a Bengal Lancer (2 min.). "16802"--Container. "16803"--Sleeve. "16804"--Sticker on sleeve.
Contents:
Disc 1. Side A. Noel Coward's Design for living (91 min. ; 1933) / producer and director, Ernst Lubitsch ; screenplay, Ben Hecht -- Peter Ibbetson (86 min. ; 1935) / producer, Louis D. Lighton ; director, Henry Hathaway ; screenplay, Vincent Lawrence and Waldemar Young -- Side B. The general died at dawn (99 min. ; 1936) / producer, William LeBaron ; screenplay, Clifford Odets ; director, Lewis Milestone -- Disc 2. Side A. Beau Geste (113 min. ; 1939) / screenplay, Robert Carson ; producer and director, William Wellman -- Side B. The lives of a Bengal lancer (109 min. ; 1935) / producer, Louis D. Lighton ; director, Henry Hathaway ; screenplay, Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah.
Summary:
Design for living: Two free-wheeling Americans share an apartment in Paris and fall in love with the same woman. Peter Ibbetson: An architect discovers his childhood sweetheart is now the wife of the nobleman he is working for. When he is imprisoned for an accidental killing, only their rekindled love gives him hope. The General died at dawn: A mysterious American soldier-of-fortune is determined to foil the ambitions of a ruthless enemy general planning to take over the provinces of Northern China. Beau Geste: Three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a dark past. Their troubles are forgotten when they are forced to fight against all odds. The lives of a Bengal lancer: A man joins two other Bengal lancers in the quest to protect British India's Northwest Frontier from Islamic invaders.
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