Beau Geste (1926)
Hard lives, quick deaths, undying love!
101 min
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.
- Release date
- August 24, 1926
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $900,000
- Box office
- $1,500,000
Cast
- Ronald Colman as Michael 'Beau' Geste
- Neil Hamilton as Digby Geste
- Ralph Forbes as John Geste
- Alice Joyce as Lady Patricia Brandon
- Mary Brian as Isabel Rivers
- Noah Beery as Sgt. Lejaune
- Norman Trevor as Maj. de Beaujolais
- William Powell as Boldini
- George Regas as Maris
- Bernard Siegel as Schwartz
Crew
- Herbert Brenon · Director
- Percival Christopher Wren · Writer
- John Russell · Writer
- Paul Schofield · Writer
- Herbert Brenon · Producer
- Jesse L. Lasky · Producer
- Adolph Zukor · Producer
- Hugo Riesenfeld · Composer
- J. Roy Hunt · Cinematographer
- Julian Johnson · Editor