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The Desert Song (1953 film)
1953
- 1953 · Musical · 1h 50m
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.
The Desert Song: Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. With Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey. Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them.
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- Musical, Romance
- H. Bruce Humberstone
- 1953-05-30
The Desert Song (1953) Warner Bros. took viewers on a trip to Morocco, or rather the Morocco of Western dreams, in the 1953 musical The Desert Song. Despite strong singing from Kathryn Grayson and Gordon MacRae in the leads, the studio's third version of the story of a North African Zorro was derided as one trip to the well too many by ...
The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. It was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Berber fighters, against French colonial rule in Morocco. It was also inspired by stories of Lawrence of Arabia aiding native guerrillas.
In Algiers, capital city of Algeria in Northern Africa, the Riffs, a desert tribe, are led by the mysterious El Khobar (MacRae) against the forces of the treacherous Sheik Yousseff (Massey). The sheik's men have been stealing food and supplies from the Riffs.
About. They have the sky above, the sand below and a song in their hearts. Kathryn Grayson ( Kiss Me Kate) and Gordon MacRae ( Oklahoma!) capture the romance and splendor of one of the world’s great operettas in the ravishing Technicolor® treat The Desert Song.
H. Bruce Humberstone’s romantic musical revolves around a French professor (Gordon Macrae) who clandestinely is in charge of a group of desert freedom troops. With Kathryn Grayson. A civil conflict between Morocco's Berber and Arab populations gives the setting for this romantic musical escapade, an adaptation of the operetta by Sigmund Romberg.
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