- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The action during the battle scene with the Berber raiders (on the march to Fort Zinderneuf) pauses at a critical point for a spoof of used-car commercials (hawking used camels).
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- In James Earl Jones' Stock Footage scene with Rudolph Valentino, Valentino invites Jones' character (Sheik Abdul the Disgusting) to travel with him to Hollywood to seek fame and fortune. The movie was released right around the time that Jones broke out as a star with his role as Alex Haley in Roots (1977) and his (uncredited) role as the voice of Darth Vader.
- Beau Geste has not been remade again in the 40 years since this movie's release, making its title quite fitting indeed.
- Ho Yay: In the ball scene, Flavia thinks she's being invited to dance by General Pecheur and holds out her white-gloved hand with an inviting smile...only to find Pecheur reaching over her to take Sergeant Markov's hand and lead him out onto the dance floor. She's left standing there looking tolerably nonplussed.
- Markov is attracted to Beau from the moment he first lays eyes on him, and compensates by cranking his Drill Sergeant Nasty side up to eleven.
- Values Dissonance: One of the Foreign Legion recruits is a blind man, and there are numerous jokes riffing off his disability. Such jokes were a lot more acceptable in the 1970s than they are now.
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