The Garden of Allah is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Rex Ingram, his final film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Ingram’s wife, actress Alice Terry and Iván Petrovich. It is the second version of the Robert Hichens 1904 British novel of the same name, which had been filmed by the Selig Polyscope Company in 1916 with Helen Ware and would be filmed again in 1936 with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer.[1]
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Directed by | Rex Ingram |
Written by | Willis Goldbeck (scenario) Martin Brown (titles) |
Based on | The Garden of Allah by Robert S. Hichens |
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 |
Box office | $634,450 (USA Gross Total) |
An incomplete print of The Garden of Allah still exists and is preserved at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists film archive.[2]
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).
The film was shot at a studio in Nice, France, and the desert exteriors were filmed in Biskra, Algeria and Morocco.[3]
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