--- title: 'Beau Ideal (1931)' type: 'film' director: 'Herbert Brenon' released: '1931-01-01' runtime_minutes: 79 genres: - 'Adventure' - 'War' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/beau-ideal-1931' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020673/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Beau Ideal (1931) 1931 · 79 min · Adventure, War · United States ## Synopsis Beau Ideal is a 1931 American pre-Code adventure film directed by Herbert Brenon and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film was based on the 1927 adventure novel Beau Ideal by P. C. Wren, the third novel in a series of five novels based around the same characters. Brenon had directed the first in the series, Beau Geste, which was a very successful silent film in 1926. The screenplay was adapted from Wren's novel by Paul Schofield, who had also written the screenplay for the 1926 Beau Geste, with contributions from Elizabeth Meehan and Marie Halvey. ## Credits - **Director:** [Herbert Brenon](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-brenon) - **Screenplay:** [Paul Schofield](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-schofield) - **Original Music Composer:** [Max Steiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-steiner) - **Editor:** [Herbert Brenon](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-brenon) - **Producer:** [William LeBaron](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-lebaron) - **Director of Photography:** [J. Roy Hunt](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-roy-hunt) ## Cast - [Otto Matieson](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-matieson) - [Loretta Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/loretta-young) - [John St. Polis](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-st-polis) - [Bernard Siegel](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-siegel) - [Don Alvarado](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-alvarado) - [Ralph Forbes](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-forbes) - [Wilfrid North](https://cinepixo.com/people/wilfrid-north) - [Lester Vail](https://cinepixo.com/people/lester-vail) - [Hale Hamilton](https://cinepixo.com/people/hale-hamilton) - [Paul McAllister](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-mcallister) - [Irene Rich](https://cinepixo.com/people/irene-rich) - [Georgios Regas](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgios-regas) - [Myrtle Stedman](https://cinepixo.com/people/myrtle-stedman) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/beau-ideal-1931 Film facts: Wikidata (Q4877364); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.