The Desert Song(Movie, 1953)

Name: The Desert Song
Genre: Music, Romance / Love
Released: 1953
Duration: T01:50:00

1h 50min | Genres: Music, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

The Desert Song is a 1953 film version in Technicolor of Sigmund Romberg's operetta. It is the third film version of the operetta, the third made by Warner Bros., and the second in full three-strip Technicolor. Although it was released in 1953, it was not made in widescreen; at that time Twentieth-Century Fox held the rights to Cinemascope, which was introduced that year in the film The Robe. ()

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About The Desert Song

Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.

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Preview Clip | The Desert Song | Warner Archive(Clip, 3:01)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Morocco

Made by: Warner Bros. Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 3 languages: English (EN), Portuguese (PT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 05/30/1953

Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Raymond Massey, Steve Cochran, William Conrad, Dick Wesson, Ray Collins, Paul Picerni, Frank de Kova, Trevor Bardette

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone

Producer: Rudi Fehr

Screenwriter: Max Steiner, Roland Kibbee, Oscar Hammerstein II

Film Editor: William H. Ziegler

Director of Photography: Robert Burks

Composer: Max Steiner

Keywords: foreign legion, musical, sheik, arab, morocco

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The Desert Song(Movie, 1953)

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