The Garden of Allah

The Garden of Allah
by Richard Boleslawski

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Actor: Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Boyer, Joseph Schildkraut, Marlene Dietrich
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Virgil Miller
Editor: Anson Stevenson
Producer: David O. Selznick
Writer: Lynn Riggs
Writer: Robert Hichens
Writer: W.P. Lipscomb
Writer: Willis Goldbeck
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Review: Fabulous early movie
Summary: 4 Stars

This is one of the first coloured movies picturing a romantic story in the desert. The story is passionate, the images beautiful, and definitely worth seeing.

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Screen legends Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer "achieve the finest performances of their careers" (Newsweek), as they taste forbidden fruit under the seductive, blazing skies of the Sahara.Featuring a sumptuous score by composer Max Steiner (Gone With the Wind), this sweeping epicof passionate romance is "the most beautiful and atmospherically compelling picture ever made" (The Hollywood Reporter). After the death of her father, convent-educated Domini Enfilden (Dietrich) heads for the desert seeking peace. But instead of tranquility, the sultry beauty finds passion in the arms of Boris Androvsky (Boyer)secretly a Trappist monk who has broken his vows and lost his faith. Will Domini discover Boris' secret, and will his hidden past destroy their future happiness?

Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer play a pair of lost souls who meet in the desert. She is the sheltered Domini, looking for spiritual enlightenment in the Sahara. He is Boris, a young monk who has abandoned the monastery, wanting to experience the outside world. Together, they fall in love and try to come to terms with their mutual guilt while having a passionate affair. C. Aubrey Smith and Basil Rathbone serve as guides for Domini. John Carradine cameos as a bizarre fortune teller.

Unfortunately, even an excellent cast can't save this sandy soaper from itself. Although the Technicolor cinematography is gorgeous, and Dietrich sports a new and more stunning gown for every desert occasion, viewers will find no oasis to quench their thirst. Basically, this is a very early version of Hollywood's "sex and sand" films, so popular in the 1950s--lush, unusual, and ultimately silly. --Mark Savary

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