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The Desert Song is a american film of genre Musical directed by Roy Del Ruth released in USA on 8 april 1929 with John Boles

The Desert Song (1929)

The Desert Song
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Released in USA 8 april 1929
Length 2h3
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Musical,    Romance
Rating64% 3.2294653.2294653.2294653.2294653.229465

The Desert Song is a 1929 American Pre-Code operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy. It was photographed partly in two-color Technicolor, the first film released by Warner Bros. to be in color. Although some of the songs from the show have been omitted, the film is otherwise virtually a duplicate of the stage production and extremely faithful to it. It was based on the hit musical play with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel

The stage musical opened at the Casino Theatre on Broadway on November 30, 1926 and ran for a very successful 465 performances. Based on the success of this film, Warner Bros. quickly cast John Boles in an all color musical feature called Song of the West which was completed by June of 1929 but had its release delayed until March of 1930.

Synopsis

French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort to Birabeau's right-hand man, Captain Fontaine. Birabeau's son Pierre, in reality the Red Shadow, loves Margot, but pretends to be a milksop to preserve his secret identity. Margot tells Pierre that she secretly yearns to be swept into the arms of some bold, dashing sheik, perhaps even the Red Shadow himself. Pierre, as the Red Shadow, kidnaps Margot and declares his love for her.

Actors

John Boles

(The Red Shadow)Myrna Loy

(Azuri)Louise Fazenda

(Susan)Johnny Arthur

(Benny Kidd)Edward Martindel

(General Bierbeau)
And :
Otto Hoffman
John Miljan
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