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The Desert Song (1953)

The Desert Song (1953)

Romance Music

The Best Loved of all Musical Adventures!

Release Date: 1953, May 30
Directors: H. Bruce Humberstone
Countries: United States of America
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast: Frank De Kova, Charles Perry, Ben Astar, Trevor Bardette, Bhogwan Singh, Cosmo Sardo, Ray Collins, Jack Tornek, Steve Cochran, Allyn Ann McLerie, Gordon MacRae, Paul Picerni

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

musical foreign legion arab morocco sheik