History Film / TheLastRemakeOfBeauGeste

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes/Rescued: The movie didn't see release on DVD for over a decade after the format was introduced until Universal added it to its "Archive Series". Even now, the "director's cut" mentioned above still hasn't surfaced.

* {{Homage}}: The prison-escape scene is a tribute to silent comedies, especially those of BusterKeaton (Feldman's idol), CharlieChaplin and HaroldLloyd.

* WickedStepmother: Flavia lusts after the priceless Blue Water sapphire as well as she does after Beau, but that's about as far as her wickedness actually goes; [[spoiler:and in the end, she gives up the Blue Water in favor of having Beau instead]].

* BlackBraAndPanties: Flavia swans around in the [[LaBelleEpoque Belle Epoque]] version of black silk-and-lace lingerie on several occasions, usually when she's having a sexual encounter with somebody (though the first time we see her in her undies, she's been stripped by persons unknown while the Blue Water is being stole).

''The Last Remake of Beau Geste'' was a 1977 comedy starring (and directed by) Creator/MartyFeldman, and also featured Michael York, Ann-Margret, Peter Ustinov, Terry-Thomas, Spike Milligan, Avery Schreiber and Creator/JamesEarlJones. It's a {{Parody}} of the classic adventure novel ''Literature/BeauGeste'' (though, by Feldman's own account, he got ''Literature/BeauGeste'' mixed up with ''Film/TheFourFeathers'', which was what he had originally intended to spoof) and the movies based on it. The movie was [[ExecutiveMeddling severely cut before its release]]; Michael York has commented in interviews that Feldman's original version was much funnier than the released version, and Feldman himself wrote to a critic at the New York ''Times'' to advise him that the version of the film he had seen (which, in fact, he had given a rave review to) was ''not'' the version that Feldman had made and wanted to release.

* {{Homage}}: The prison-escape scene is a tribute to silent comedies, especially those of BusterKeaton, CharlieChaplin and HaroldLloyd.

* TheGreatEscape: With behind-the-scenes help from Flavia, who's seduced the prison governor, Digby breaks out of prison (in a {{Homage}} to silent comedies, referenced below) so that he can get to Morocco and reunite with Beau.

* PinkySwear: When 12-year-old Beau and Digby make their patch to stick by each other, they exchange a very complicated arm-wrestling-style grip that they have some difficulty extricating themselves from. This grip pops up again when the brothers reunite at the Foreign Legion training base and [[spoiler:at the end of the movies, from opposite ends of the European continent, using the SplitScreen effect, when we see the brothers snuggled up with their ladyloves.]]

* PinkySwear: When 12-year-old Beau and Digby make their patch to stick by each other, they exchange a very complicated arm-wrestling-style grip that they have some difficulty extricating themselves from. This grip pops up again when the brothers reunite at the Foreign Legion training base and [[spoiler:at the end of the movies, from opposite ends of the European continent, when we see the brothers snuggled up with their ladyloves.]]

* LegCannon: In addition to his scar collection, Sergeant Markov has an entire closet of prosthetic legs. His regular one is an actual cannon. Another one has a built-in rapier. [[spoiler:He even has a hollow wooden leg in which he's hiding the Blue Water!]]

** Isabel, as befits a young lady of the [[VictorianBritain Victorian era]], wears a pretty white ribbon in her blonde hair.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: This movie features a real corker. The newspaper referenced in the SpinningPaper entry below features a front-page story about Sir Hector's victory in the Sudan. Smaller headlines report that he defeated the French and inflicted over 100,000 casualties on them. However: (1) The actual Sudan campaign predates the movie by nearly a decade; and (2) Two years previous, the British and French concluded the series of treaties known as the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entente_cordiale Entente Cordiale]]'', which pretty much ended a millennium of conflict between the two countries.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: This movie features a real corker. The newspaper referenced in the SpinningPaper entry below features a front-page story about Sir Hector's victory in the Sudan. Smaller headlines report that he defeated the French and inflicted over 100,000 casualties on them. However: (1) The actual Sudan campaign was in 1898, several years before the events of the movie; and (2) By the time this movie takes place (1906) the ''Entente Cordiale'' had been agreed to between Britain and France, resolving many long-standing issues (including colonial disputes) and laying the foundation for the Triple Entente alliance that would face off against the Central Powers in WorldWarOne.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The newspaper referenced in the SpinningPaper entry below features a front-page story about Sir Hector's victory in the Sudan. Smaller headlines report that he defeated the French and inflicted over 100,000 casualties on them. However: (1) The actual Sudan campaign was in 1898, several years before the events of the movie; and (2) By the time this movie takes place (1906) the ''Entente Cordiale'' had been agreed to between Britain and France, resolving many long-standing issues (including colonial disputes) and laying the foundation for the Triple Entente alliance that would face off against the Central Powers in WorldWarOne.

* LegCannon: In addition to his scar collection, Sergeant Markov has an entire closet of prosthetic legs. His regular one is an actual cannon. Another one has a built-in rapier.

* FemmeFatale: Flavia enthusiastically employs her beauty and sexual allure to wrap men around her little finger in her pursuit of the Blue Water sapphire. [[Subverted Trope Subverted]] in that, unlike most characters of this type, [[spoiler:she ends up getting her man - that is, Beau - at the end of the movie]].