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Beau Sabreur
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Wikipedia article
'Beau Sabreur' is a 1928 American silent romantic adventure film directed by John Waters and starring Gary Cooper and Evelyn Brent. Based on the 1926 novel 'Beau Sabreur' by P. C. Wren, who also wrote the 1924 novel 'Beau Geste'. Produced by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation and distributed by Paramount Pictures, only a trailer exists of this film today. The released feature version is a lost film.[https://web.archive.org/web/20141225003106/http://www.thegreatstars.com/lost_film_wanted.htm '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 spahis (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 lost film was intended to be a Foreign Legion epic.
Plot
A desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion 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
* Gary Cooper as Major Henri de Beaujolais
* Evelyn Brent as Mary Vanbrugh
* Noah Beery as Sheikh El Hammel
* William Powell as Becque
* Roscoe Karns as Buddy
* Mitchell Lewis as Suleman the Strong
* Arnold Kent as Raoul de Redon
* Raoul Paoli as Dufour
* Joan Standing as Maudie
* Frank Reicher as General de Beaujolais
* Oscar Smith as Djikki
* H.J. Utterhore (uncredited)
* Alberto Morin (uncredited)
Production
'Beau Sabreur' was filmed on location in Guadalupe, California, in Red Rock Canyon State Park in Cantil, California, and in Yuma, Arizona.
References
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