Beau Geste

Herbert Brenon, Paramount, 1926, from P. C. Wren. Ronald Colman as Michael 'Beau' Geste, with his brothers into the Foreign Legion after a sapphire disappears from an English house. Silent, about 101 minutes. Brenon shooting the desert fort as a locked-room mystery that happens to have rifles. Colman already the face of honorable trouble. The Viking funeral of the opening is the novel's hook; Brenon keeps it.