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The title stems from an Arabic saying that the desert is the Garden of Allah. The play was a commercial success, [3] famed for its spectacle, with large numbers of authentic Algerian people, live animals, and complex set designs and effects. [4]
Plot. After the death of her invalid father, wealthy Domini Enfilden returns to Le Couvent de Ste. Cecile, where she was reared, to seek counsel from Mother Josephine about her loneliness. The Mother Superior tells her that in the solitude of the Sahara Desert, she might find herself.
The Garden of Allah: Directed by Richard Boleslawski. With Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Tilly Losch, Basil Rathbone. The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
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- Adventure, Drama, Mystery
- Richard Boleslawski
- 1936-11-19
Domini Enfilden is a wealthy Englishwoman who travels to French Algeria, accompanied only by her maid. A devout Catholic, Domini is seeking peace after many years enduring the apostasy of her late father, Lord Rens. Converted to Catholicism by Lady Rens, he renounced the faith when she deserted him.
- Robert Smythe Hichens
- 1904
The title stems from an Arabic saying that the desert is the Garden of Allah. The play was a commercial success, famed for its spectacle, with large numbers of authentic Algerian people, live animals, and complex set designs and effects.
Jun 23, 2015 · The Garden of Allah was the clandestine pied-à-terre of choice for the film industry's most talented and illustrious transients: writers, actors, directors, producers. When Hollywood wanted to...
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The Garden of Allah (1936) was a lavish picture, in Technicolor, with Charles Boyer as a monk fleeing his vocation who falls in love with a woman (Marlene Dietrich) wandering the Algerian desert on a voyage of self-discovery.
