question: Which of the following is remembered best for Beau Geste: P. C. Wren or James Emanuel?
answer: Percival Christopher Wren
context: Title: Beau Geste (1926 film)
  Passage: Beau Geste (1926) is a silent film based on the novel "Beau Geste" by P. C. Wren.  Ronald Colman stars as the title character.
  Title: P. C. Wren
  Passage: Percival Christopher Wren (1 November 187522 November 1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction.  He is remembered best for "Beau Geste", a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa.  This was one of 33 novels and short story collections that he wrote, mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa.
  Title: James Emanuel
  Passage: James Emanuel (born June 15, 1921 – September 28, 2013) was a poet and scholar from Alliance, Nebraska.  Emanuel, who is ranked by some critics as one of the best and most neglected poets of the 20th century, published more than 300 poems, 13 individual books, an influential anthology of African American literature, an autobiography, and more.  He is also credited with creating a new literary genre, jazz-and-blues haiku, often read with musical accompaniment.
  Title: Brian Donlevy
  Passage: Waldo Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 6, 1972), known as Brian Donlevy, was an American actor, noted for playing dangerous tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s.  He usually appeared in supporting roles.  Among his best-known films are "Beau Geste" (1939) and "The Great McGinty" (1940).  For his role as Sergeant Markoff in "Beau Geste", he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
  Title: Beau Ideal
  Passage: 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 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.
  Title: Beau Sabreur
  Passage: Beau Sabreur is a 1928 American silent film directed by John Waters and starring Gary Cooper and Evelyn Brent.  Based on the novel "Beau Sabreur" by P. C. Wren, who also wrote "Beau Geste", the film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the Legion and is then sent on a mission among the Arabs to conclude the signing of a crucial peace treaty.  Produced by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation and distributed by Paramount Pictures, only a trailer exists of this film today.  The released feature version is a lost film.
  Title: The Last Remake of Beau Geste
  Passage: The Last Remake of Beau Geste is a 1977 American historical comedy film.  It starred and was also directed and co-written by Marty Feldman.  It is a satire loosely based on the novel "Beau Geste", a frequently-filmed story of brothers and their adventures in the French Foreign Legion.  The humor is based heavily upon wordplay and absurdity.  Feldman plays Digby Geste, the awkward and clumsy "identical twin" brother of Michael York's Beau, the dignified, aristocratic swashbuckler.
  Title: Beau Geste (1966 film)
  Passage: Beau Geste is a 1966 film based on the 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.
citations: P. C. Wren James Emanuel