The Desert Song (1953)
1h 50m
Running Time
May 30, 1953Release Date
The Desert Song (1953)
1h 50m
Running Time
May 30, 1953Release Date
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Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

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
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
morocco
foreign legion
musical
sheik
arab
Wiki.
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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