''Beau Sabreur'' is a 1928 American silent romantic

adventure film An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, ani ...

directed by

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and starring

Gary Cooper Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901May 13, 1961) was an American actor known for his strong, quiet screen persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, a ...

and

Evelyn Brent Evelyn Brent (born Mary Elizabeth Riggs; October 20, 1895 – June 4, 1975) was an American film and stage actress. Early life Brent was born in Tampa, Florida, and known as Betty. When she was age 10, her mother Eleanor (née. Warner) died, ...

. Based on the 1926 novel '' Beau Sabreur'' by

P. C. Wren Percival Christopher Wren (1 November 187522 November 1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for ''Beau Geste'', a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was ...

, who also wrote the 1924 novel ''

Beau Geste ''Beau Geste'' is an adventure novel by British writer P. C. Wren, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a re ...

''. Produced by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation and distributed by

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, only a trailer exists of this film today. The released feature version is a

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.''Beau Sabreur'' at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted
Wayback Machine) In the original novel the lead character Major Henri de Beaujolais is an officer of

spahi Spahis () were light-cavalry regiments of the French army recruited primarily from the indigenous populations of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. The modern French Army retains one regiment of Spahis as an armoured unit, with personnel now ...

s (Algerian colonial cavalry of the French Army) and has no connection with the better known Foreign Legion. In all surviving stills of ''Beau Sabreur'' Gary Cooper is shown wearing the distinctive spahi uniform and it is not clear whether the

was intended to be a Foreign Legion epic.

Plot

A desert-bound member of the

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exposes a betrayer to the Legion. He is then sent on a mission among the Arabs to conclude the signing of a crucial peace treaty.

Cast

as Major Henri de Beaujolais *

as Mary Vanbrugh *

Noah Beery Noah Nicholas Beery (January 17, 1882 – April 1, 1946) was an American actor who appeared in films from 1913 until his death in 1946. He was the older brother of Academy Award-winning actor Wallace Beery as well as the father of prominen ...

as Sheikh El Hammel *

William Powell William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984) was an American actor. A major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the '' Thin Man'' series based on the Nick and Nora Charles characters cr ...

as Becque *

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as Buddy * Mitchell Lewis as Suleman the Strong *

Arnold Kent Arnold Kent (1899 – 1928) was an Italian-born American actor. He was born in Sesto Fiorentino as Lido Manetti and acted under that name in Italy, appearing in films such as '' Goodbye Youth'' (1918) and '' Quo Vadis'' (1924). He moved then to ...

as Raoul de Redon * Raoul Paoli as Dufour *

Joan Standing Joan Standing (21 June 1903 – 3 February 1979) was an English actress best known for playing Nurse Briggs in the 1931 horror film ''Dracula''. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1919 and 1940. Partial filmography * ''The Loves of ...

as Maudie *

Frank Reicher Frank Reicher (born Franz Reicher; December 2, 1875 – January 19, 1965) was a German-born American actor, director and producer. He is best known for playing Captain Englehorn in the 1933 film ''King Kong''. Early life Reicher was born in Mu ...

as General de Beaujolais * Oscar Smith as Djikki * H.J. Utterhore (uncredited) * Alberto Morin (uncredited)

Production

''Beau Sabreur'' was filmed on location in

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, in Red Rock Canyon State Park in

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, and in

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References

External links

* * *
''Beau Sabreur''
at Virtual History *

at

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