Beau Geste
(1926) American
C/B&W : Eleven reels / 10,600 feet
Directed by Herbert Brenon

Cast: Ronald Colman [Michael ‘Beau’ Geste], Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Norman Trevor, Noah Beery (Sr.), Alice Joyce, Mary Brian, William Powell, Victor McLaglen, Donald Stewart, George Regas, Bernard Siegel, Paul McAllister, Redmond Finlay, Ram Singh, Maurice Murphy, Philippe de Lacy, Mickey McBan

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. Scenario by Paul Schofield, from the adaptation by John Russell and Herbert Brenon of the novel Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren. Art direction by Julian Boone Fleming. Production superintendent Frank Blount. Assistant director Ray Lissner. Cinematography by J. Roy Hunt. Editing supervised by Julian Johnson. Music score by Hugo Riesenfeld. / Released 1 August 1926. New York premiere 25 August 1926 at Criterion Theatre in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process sequences. / Powell’s 17th film.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Keywords: Color cinematography - Death: Suicide - Deserts - Foreign Legion

Listing updated: 21 March 2004.

References: Baer-Film p. 20; Basten-Technicolor p. 169; Best-Those p. 56; Brownlow-Parade p. 296; Everson-American pp. 145, 283; Geduld-Birth p. 146; Jewell-RKO pp. 24, 33; Kerr-Silent pp. 8, 31; Lahue-Collecting pp. 39, 62; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 62; Limbacher-Feature p. 18; Maltin-Guide p. 85; Paris-Brooks pp. 97, 177; Quirk-Colman pp. 9, 15, 17, 53, 93, 95, 96, 97-100, 101, 179, 180; Quirk-Powell pp. 11, 21, 64-66; Shipman-Cinema pp. 90, 92; Smith-Colman pp. 8, 32-33, 34, 52, 62-70, 91, 129, 141, 166, 169, 173, 174, 221, 294; Sweeney-Coming p. 100; Vermilye-Twenties p. 151 : AmerCine-1995-10 pp. 98, 99.