The Desert Song
The Best Loved of all Musical Adventures!
1953 | 110m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | H. Bruce Humberstone |
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| Writer: | Roland Kibbee |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | May 30, 1953 |
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| Director: | H. Bruce Humberstone |
| Writer: | Roland Kibbee |
| Genres: | Romance, Music |
| Keywords | morocco, foreign legion, musical, sheik, arab |
| Production Companies | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Kathryn Grayson | Margot Birabeau |
| Gordon MacRae | El Khobar / Paul Bonnard |
| Steve Cochran | Captain Claude Fontaine |
| Raymond Massey | Sheik Yousseff |
| Dick Wesson | Benjamin 'Benjy' Kidd |
| Allyn Ann McLerie | Azuri |
| Ray Collins | Gen. Birabeau |
| Paul Picerni | Hassan |
| Frank De Kova | Mindar |
| William Conrad | Lachmed |
| Trevor Bardette | Neri |
| Mark Dana | Lt. Duvalle |
| Ben Astar | Sheik |
| Bhogwan Singh | Old Villager |
| Jack Tornek | Riff Guard |
| Cosmo Sardo | Legionnaire |
| Charles Perry | Legionnaire (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| H. Bruce Humberstone | Director |
| Roland Kibbee | Screenplay |
| Oscar Hammerstein II | Theatre Play, Lyricist |
| Max Steiner | Original Music Composer |
| Robert Burks | Director of Photography |
| Otto A. Harbach | Theatre Play |
| Frank Mandel | Theatre Play |
| Laurence Schwab | Theatre Play |
| William H. Ziegler | Editor |
| Stanley Fleischer | Art Direction |
| William L. Kuehl | Set Decoration |
| Howard Hohler | Script Supervisor |
| Sigmund Romberg | Music, Songs |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Rudi Fehr | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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