Beau Geste Page #4

and keep his share.

All right.

Oh, we'll have

to find it first.

Let's wait

till the morning.

I don't like searching people in the dark.

Good night.

Good night.

Good night.

What the...

Thief!

l... l... I lost my way.

l... I was going for a drink.

Liar, you were

trying to rob him.

No, I didn't know

where I was going.

I was walking

in my sleep.

You were trying to rob him, I

know you from before, Rasinoff!

No, l... l... l... I wasn't!

Thief!

Quiet!

On the table with him!

He's had enough!

Get out of here!

Take it easy, Beau,

there's too many of them.

Shh.

The guards.

You didn't wait very long to

start your old tricks, huh?

But Sergeant, they had... Silence!

An accident.

Yes, Sergeant.

Go to the washstand

and bathe your hands.

Yes, Sergeant.

Save your first-aid treatments

for yourselves after this.

You'll need 'em.

I promise you!

Who were you trying to rob?

The one named Beau.

Of what?

He has money.

You lie.

You wouldn't take that

risk for a little money.

Well,

he has a jewel.

Tell me the truth.

It is the truth,

I swear it.

They have a great jewel, worth

30,000 pounds that they stole.

They?

The other two.

They are brothers,

and they're waiting

for a chance to sell it.

But he is the leader.

He carries it.

I've watched him.

What about the two Americans?

Well.

They are just friends.

Make sure you're

telling me the truth.

I am.

I am!

You know,

I think I can help you

get that jewel.

Why...

Why, that's

what I hoped.

I'm sure you did.

In a week we go to relieve the

garrison at Fort Zinderneuf.

It can be arranged there.

But there are three of them,

and... and the two friends.

Some of the company

go to Fort Tokotu

for mounted

infantry training.

It can be arranged.

And if there's no jewel,

you'll get

a wooden jewel box.

I promise you.

But... but he has it.

I'm sure of it.

Go back to the barracks.

Today marks the end

of your training.

You are now soldiers,

in the service of France.

We are here on the desert

as guardians

of 20 millions of natives.

They look to us

for the protection and justice

that is the tradition

of the Foreign Legion.

Yours is a high duty,

and a hard one.

The odds are great.

It is our allegiance to France

and our debt to civilization

to uphold that tradition.

Some of you are assigned

with me to Fort Zinderneuf.

Another detachment

will go to Fort Tokotu

for further training

in the mounted company.

Select your men

for Tokotu, Sergeant.

McMonigal,

3 steps forward.

Miller!

Benoff!

Personne!

Andre!

Diggs!

Costaud!

Baker!

Noyaki!

Lacoste!

Brun!

Schmidt!

Vandenecker!

Laumange!

Ruclous!

Dirla!

Aloof!

Corporal Golas,

take charge

of the detachment.

Tokotu party,

fall in!

Right shoulder

arms!

Right face!

Forward march!

Present arms!

Present arms!

Center dress!

Front!

Count off!

Three.

Four.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Right shoulder arms!

Detail in order, sir.

Right by fours, right!

Forward march!

Present arms!

Present arms!

Right shoulder arms!

Look where you're going. I'm sorry.

Do that again, blubber-face,

and I'll brain you.

He'll be gibbering like

Krenke in a little while.

We all will.

I wouldn't mind if it would

annoy Markoff.

Come on,

bring on that coffee!

Coffee!

Let's try to get Krenke

to drink a little.

So this is the cafard!

Did the Captain

back in Paris tell you

about his red, white

and blue skull?

Yes.

He was lucky.

Can't we do

something for him?

We can help him to die,

that's all.

How's Lt. Martin?

Worse.

I haven't prayed in a long time,

but I'm going to pray for him.

You'd better!

Think of Markoff

in command!

I wonder where Renault and

Renouf are this morning?

Dead, with their

mouths full of sand.

It's no use to desert.

Oh, what's the difference

whether you get death inside

the walls or out?

There's a chance

inside.

Not if the Lieutenant dies.

You don't have

to be the pigs.

You can be the butcher.

And then what?

Morocco,

all of us.

We leave that pig Markoff well stuck.

And you'd be well stuck

before you ever got to Morocco.

The Arabs would never dare

attack so large a group.

No, but the French Army

would.

Do you know what I think

of the French Army?

After we kill

Markoff and you,

I'm gonna tear off

this uniform...

Cut it out.

What's going on in here?

Schwartz was trying

to eat too fast again.

Everybody out on

the parade ground.

Renault and Renouf

are back!

Any orders

this morning, sir?

No, you take over,

Markoff.

The scouts brought back

our two deserters, sir.

Lock them up.

We'll send them to Tokotu for

court martial in a few days.

The men need a lesson,

Lieutenant.

Locking them up won't...

Who's in command of this fort?

You are, sir.

Don't make the mistake

of forgetting that

or you'll join the deserters

in the cell.

That's all.

Yes, sir.

Attention!

Stand aside!

Where are they?

They're outside,

sir.

Bring them in.

Bring them in!

Attention!

So you decided

to come back to us, huh?

Yes, Sergeant.

After the desert, Zinderneuf

doesn't seem so bad, huh?

No, Sergeant.

Speak up!

No, Sergeant.

The punishment for desertion

is death by the firing squad.

But I'm going

to be merciful.

You can

escape again.

Oh, no!

You mean you want to

stay here and be executed?

W-water! Water!

On your feet!

I insist

that you escape.

No... no, let us stay!

Yeah, give us a...

Get out!

Out!

Drive them out

where you found them.

Keep them away

from the oasis.

I'm glad

Digby isn't here.

I wish you weren't.

Any more of you

want to desert?

If you do,

you can go now.

I won't stop you.

Later you may wish

you had taken my offer.

I promise you.

Rasinoff!

You can close

the gates now.

How do you feel tonight,

Lieutenant?

I'm dying.

I hope not, sir.

I'm going to die

and be buried under the sand

and forgotten.

When I was

a little boy,

I thought soldiers

always died in battles.

I didn't know there were

so many soldiers

and so few battles

and so many fevers.

Get word to Beaujolais

at Tokotu.

Have him send

another officer.

You'll be in command

until then.

Yes, sir.

The men must be led,

not driven.

Remember,

you'll answer to the man

who takes my place.

Yes, sir.

Sergeant!

Have you...

Attention!

Lt. Martin is dead.

I am now

in command.

From this moment on,

discipline at Fort Zinderneuf

will be severe.

I promise you!

Don't tell me he took your appetites away.

He'll take more than that away before long.

Glock, go to the door,

warn us if anyone comes.

Markoff has been

asking for it,

and now he's

going to get it.

Can't you see a mutiny

is what Markoff wants?

If he puts it down,

he'll be a hero.

And you're the one who would

help him put it down, Maris.

Let him

hang himself.

Lt. Martin's death

gives him enough rope.

When his superior officers

learn what he's already done,

he'll go to prison for life!

Listen to our little

Sergeant-lover.

Our troubles

are all over

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