The Garden of Allah (1927 film)
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| Directed by | Rex Ingram |
| Written by | Willis Goldbeck |
| Produced by | Rex Ingram |
| Starring | Alice Terry Iván Petrovich Marcel Vibert |
| Cinematography | Monroe Bennett Lee Garmes Marcel Lucien |
| Edited by | Arthur Ellis |
| Music by | William Axt Edward Bowes David Mendoza |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
The Garden of Allah (1927) is a film directed by Rex Ingram and starring his wife, actress Alice Terry. It was the second version of the Robert Hichens novel The Garden of Allah, which had been filmed by the Selig company in 1916 with Helen Ware and would be filmed again in 1936 with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer. The film was shot at a studio in Nice, France, and the desert exteriors were filmed in North Africa.
Plot
Father Adrien (Iván Petrovich), a monk at the Trappist monastery of Notre Dame d'Afrique in Algeria, abandons his vows and escapes to the desert, where he meets and rescues Domini (Alice Terry).
Cast
- Alice Terry - Domini Enfilden
- Iván Petrovich - Father Adrien
- Marcel Vibert - Count Anteoni
- H.H. Wright - Lord Rens
- Pâquerette - Suzanne (as Madame Paquerette)
- Gerald Fielding - Batouch
- Armand Dutertre - The Priest of Beni-Mora
- Ben Sadour - The Sand Diviner
- Claude Fielding - Hadj
- Rehba Bent Salah - Ayesha
- Michael Powell - A Tourist
External links
- The Garden of Allah at IMDb
- Template:Amg movie
- The Garden of Allah at the TCM Movie Database
- The Garden of Allah at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- The Garden of Allah at SilentEra
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