Beau Sabreur

Beau Sabreur

Directed by John Waters 70 mins (1928)

Gary Cooper โ€“ Maj. Henri de Beaujolais

Beau Sabreur is a 1928 American silent film directed by John Waters and starring Gary Cooper and Evelyn Brent. Based on the novel Beau Sabreur by P. C. Wren, who also wrote Beau Geste, the film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the Legion and is then sent on a mission among the Arabs to conclude the signing of a crucial peace treaty.

Also starring Evelyn Brent, Noah Beery, William Powell, Roscoe Karns and Mitchell Lewis.

The characters played by Noah Beery and William Powell died in the original Beau Geste; in this sequel the actors return but play different characters.