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Box office. $2 million (US) [1] 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 ...
- $2 million (US)
- Rudi Fehr
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 marked Rudi Fehr's first film as producer. For information on two earlier adaptations of the 1926 musical play The Desert Song, both of which were produced by Warner Bros., see entries for the title in AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30 and AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1941-50.
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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. [1] It was also inspired by stories of Lawrence of Arabia aiding native guerrillas.
The Desert Song (1953) is a musical romance film based on the operetta of the same name, starring Kathryn Grayson and Gordon MacRae. Set in Morocco, it tells the story of a French general's daughter who falls in love with a mysterious rebel leader. Watch this classic Warner Bros. movie online and enjoy the sky, the sand and the song.
The operetta has been filmed three times (1929, 1943, and 1953), and a live television special was produced in 1955. Romberg's music is the main reason for producing The Desert Song. On film, location shooting and exciting action sequences strengthen the weak plot.
