# Beau Ideal (1931)

I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This critical and financial flop follows two French foreign legion soldiers trapped in a prison who remember the childhood and young adulthood they shared. While the film was a colossal loss of money for RKO Pictures, the creation of this film introduced important technological advances to the filming process overall. I've uploaded two versions, one with higher quality but a small watermark in the upper right corner, and another with no watermark but noticeably worse quality. Watermarked version sourced from "Cult Cinema Classics": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEuo4JVM5PI

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1931
- By: Herbert Brenon, Ray Lissner, Paul Schofield, Marie Halvey
- Genres: Drama, Adventure
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/beau-ideal-1931)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.