Customize Results:
Male Female

Weight in lbs.


Height
ft   in

Age



The Desert Song

[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]
Calorie Rating: 155
Released: 1953-05-30
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures,


Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.

Director / Directors

Howard Hohler
Script Supervisor


Cast

Kathryn Grayson
Character: Margot Birabeau
Gordon MacRae
Character: El Khobar / Paul Bonnard
Steve Cochran
Character: Captain Claude Fontaine

Raymond Massey
Character: Sheik Yousseff
Dick Wesson
Character: Benjamin 'Benjy' Kidd
Allyn Ann McLerie
Character: Azuri

Ray Collins
Character: Gen. Birabeau
Paul Picerni
Character: Hassan
Frank De Kova
Character: Mindar

William Conrad
Character: Lachmed
Trevor Bardette
Character: Neri
Mark Dana
Character: Lt. Duvalle

Ben Astar
Character: Sheik
Bhogwan Singh
Character: Old Villager
Jack Tornek
Character: Riff Guard

Cosmo Sardo
Character: Legionnaire
Charles Perry
Character: Legionnaire (uncredited)


Production and Crew

Roland Kibbee
Screenplay
Rudi Fehr
Producer

Frank Mandel
Theatre Play
Laurence Schwab
Theatre Play
Otto A. Harbach
Theatre Play

Max Steiner
Original Music Composer

Robert Burks
Director of Photography
Stanley Fleischer
Art Direction

William L. Kuehl
Set Decoration