Beau Ideal (1931)

Directors

Herbert Brenon

Cast

Bernard Siegel, Don Alvarado, Georgios Regas, Hale Hamilton, Irene Rich, John St. Polis, Lester Vail, Loretta Young, Myrtle Stedman, Otto Matieson, Paul McAllister, Ralph Forbes, Wilfrid North

The story

thumb|left|Lester Vail and Ralph Forbes awaiting death in the prison pit thumb|left|Lester Vail & Paul McAllister The last two surviving members of a French Foreign Legion detachment, who know each other as Smith and Brown, are consigned to a grain pit in the desert to die slowly. As they await death the two soldiers eventually realize that they were childhood friends, John Geste (Ralph Forbes) and Otis Madison (Lester Vail), respectively. Once they recognize one another, they have a series of flashbacks to their boyhood friendship in England.

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