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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Smokeyrone on January 23, 2010, 02:42:33 AM
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I can barely remember it, but I remember it made me laugh a lot.
Was it good for terrain inspiration? I can't recall.
It is hard to come by in DVD. I periodically try Amazon for the director's cut (the best version, BTW) and never find it.
(I saw Matakishi's fort tutorials, and I have some fun FFL siege rules, so it may be a possibility in the future )
Guy's it's that spoof by and starring Marty Feldman, if you are unfamiliar with it.
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Almost all French Foreign Legion movies are good for inspiration. If you want to look at some miniatures to inspire miniatures, take a look at the "Red Shadow" section of www.warflag.com for FFL and other colonial games set in the desert.
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Oh yeah, I know the Red Shadow site.
I wish he updated his terrain/buildings section! (It's been years!)
His market stands/kiosks are nice!
I am just trying to remember specifics on the last remake, but can't.
I know they had a fort, but was it "Zirndorf"? I guess it probably is.(sp?)
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Fort Zinderneuf.
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Check out Hu Rhu's thread on the French Foreign Legion Forts etc - great stuff
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I remember going to see that at the ABC Cinema in Hull on release. At the time I thought it was hilarious, Though I'm not sure 40 something me will be quite as easily amused as 11 y/o me!
I seem to remember a camel with three humps and a 'Viking' funeral that involved ashes being flushed down the toilet.
I guess you had to be there lol
According to the Wikipedia page the "director's" cut has never actually seen a release https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Remake_of_Beau_Geste
Which seems a shame.
However now you've reminded me I might just order the DVD and add it to my collection of 70s comedies (alongside Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Top Secret, Airplane...)