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and the fascinating Don Alvarado.
In making this picture, Herbert Brenon took two thousand people into the Arizona desert, by rail, road and air, hoping to find and use again the sets he had built four years before for " Beau Geste."
He found the sets in one place and his backgrounds in another I
Two ranges of sand hills and the valley between them had moved three miles away ! The wind, shifting the sand, had been moving mountains at the rate of something less than a mile a year. The " Beau Ideal " company, perforce, had to follow the landscape and begin building all over again.
A huge tent city was erected to house man and beast.
Thousands of gallons of water and tons of ice had to be transported daily from Yuma.
A carefully equipped field hospital had to be provided.
Twelve full-blooded Arab steeds had to be guarded day »-»"^"'-*-»-»«»^-»^«»-^«m«»-"-«»"--.»«»*>t and night against the
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attack of rattlesnakes, tarantulas and scorpions. One of these horses was Jadaan, ridden by Valentino in
' The Son of the Sheik." Jadaan was insured for £2,000.
Before he began work on this picture, Herbert Brenon visited Morocco, studied the country for himself and took back to Hollywood, as supervisors of detail, a veteran officer of the Foreign Legion and a chieftain of the Riffs.
" Beau Ideal " is one of the finest things Herbert Brenon has done.
It is a talking picture which is the last word in advanced technique and in dramatic strength.
Some may object to Herbert Brenon having made his characters speak in an idiom that went out of fashion years ago, but even that is a virtue since it is a signal illustration ot the artistic sincerity of one of the greatest directors in the world towards every great piece of fiction he has brought to the screen. We could do with more Herbert Brenons.