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The Desert Song(Movie, 1929)

2h 3min | Genres: Music, Romance / Love
The Desert SongRating: 2.3/5 (with 11 vote)
The Desert Song is a 1929 American pre-Code operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy. It was photographed partly in two-color Technicolor, the first film released by Warner Bros. to include footage in color. The film included a 10-minute intermission during which music was played. It was based on the hit musical play with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, and Frank Mandel, which opened at the Casino Theatre on Broadway on November 30, 1926, and ran for a very successful 465 performances. Although some of the songs from the show have been omitted, the film is otherwise virtually a duplicate of the stage production and extremely faithful to it. On the basis of the success of The Desert Song, Warner Bros. quickly cast John Boles in an all-color musical feature ca... ()
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About The Desert Song

French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort to Birabeau's right-hand man, Captain Fontaine. Birabeau's son Pierre, in reality the Red Shadow, loves Margot, but pretends to be a milksop to preserve his secret identity. Margot tells Pierre that she secretly yearns to be swept into the arms of some bold, dashing sheik, perhaps even the Red Shadow himself. Pierre, as the Red Shadow, kidnaps Margot and declares his love for her.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Morocco
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 4 languages: English (EN), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 04/08/1929
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"A Canção do Deserto"
"Den hvide Sheik"
"El canto del desierto"
"Il canto del deserto"
"A Canção do Deserto"
Budget: 354,000 USD
Revenue: 3,022,000 USD (= 854%)
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Other movies with this title: The Desert Song (DE, 1939), The Desert Song (US, 1943), The Desert Song (US, 1953), The Desert Song (US, 1955)

WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:67039, Added: 03/14/2018, Last updated: 03/22/2024