The Garden of Allah (1927 film)

The Garden of Allah
Directed by Rex Ingram
Produced by Rex Ingram
Written by Willis Goldbeck (scenario)
Martin Brown (titles)
Based on The Garden of Allah
by Robert S. Hichens
Starring Alice Terry
Iván Petrovich
Marcel Vibert
Music by William Axt
Edward Bowes
David Mendoza
Cinematography Monroe Bennett
Lee Garmes
Marcel Lucien
Edited by Arthur Ellis
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • September 2, 1927 (1927-09-02)
Running time
 96 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent
English intertitles

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]

An incomplete print of The Garden of Allah still exists and is preserved at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists film archive.[2]

Plot

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).

Cast

  • Alice Terry - Domini Enfilden
  • Iván Petrovich - Father Adrien
  • Marcel Vibert - Count Anteoni
  • H.H. Wright - Lord Rens
  • Pâquerette - Suzanne (Credited as Madame Paquerette)
  • Gerald Fielding - Batouch
  • Armand Dutertre - The Priest of Beni-Mora
  • Ben Sadour - The Sand Diviner
  • Claude Fielding - Hadj
  • Rehba Bent Salah - Ayesha
  • Michael Powell - A Tourist

Production notes

The film was shot at a studio in Nice, France, and the desert exteriors were filmed in Biskra, Algeria and Morocco.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Teo, Hsu-Ming Teo (2012). Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels. University of Texas Press. p. 69. ISBN 0-292-73940-0.
  2. ↑ "Garden of Allah (1927)". silentera.com. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ American Film Institute (1997). Munden White, Kenneth, ed. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press. p. 281. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.



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