Beau Geste (1966 film)

Beau Geste
Directed byDouglas Heyes
Written byDouglas Heyes
Based onBeau Geste
1924 novel
by P. C. Wren
Produced byWalter Seltzer
StarringGuy Stockwell
Doug McClure
Leslie Nielsen
Telly Savalas
CinematographyBud Thackery
Edited byRussell F. Schoengarth
Music byHans J. Salter
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • September 7, 1966 (1966-09-07)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.5 million

Beau Geste is a 1966 American adventure film based on the 1924 novel by P. C. Wren filmed by Universal Pictures in Technicolor and Techniscope near Yuma, Arizona and directed by Douglas Heyes. This is the least faithful of the various film adaptations of the original novel. In this version, there are only two brothers, rather than three, and there are no sequences showing Beau's life prior to his joining the Legion.