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- Music by Serge Walter Lyrics by Jack Scholl Sung by Kathryn Grayson
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The Desert Song: Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. With Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey. Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them.
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- Musical, Romance
- H. Bruce Humberstone
- 1953-05-30
The Desert Song is a 1953 film version in Technicolor of Sigmund Romberg 's operetta. It is the third film version of the operetta, the third made by Warner Bros., and the second in full three-strip Technicolor.
The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. It was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Berber fighters, against French colonial rule in Morocco. [1] It was also inspired by stories of Lawrence of Arabia aiding native guerrillas.
Synopsis and discussion of the film The Desert Song, released in 1953 by Warner Bros., starring Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, and Dick Wesson, and directed by H. Bruce Humberstone.
Review by Luke Thorne ★★★. H. Bruce Humberstone’s romantic musical revolves around a French professor (Gordon Macrae) who clandestinely is in charge of a group of desert freedom troops. With Kathryn Grayson.
- H. Bruce Humberstone
- Warner Bros. Pictures
The Desert Song is filled with wonderful melodies and Gordon MacRae and Kathryn Grayson sing them to perfection in this third film adaption of the Romberg-Harbach-Hammerstein operetta. The real surprise for most people is that the Riffs are quite real.
The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. It was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Berber fighters, against French colonial rule in Morocco.
