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The Desert Song

65 %|May 30, 1953|Music, Romance

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.

Featured Crew

H. Bruce Humberstone
Director
Roland Kibbee
Screenplay
Rudi Fehr
Producer
Oscar Hammerstein II
Theatre Play
Otto A. Harbach
Theatre Play
Frank Mandel
Theatre Play
Laurence Schwab
Theatre Play
Max Steiner
Original Music Composer

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Cast

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Kathryn Grayson
Margot Birabeau
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Gordon MacRae
El Khobar / Paul Bonnard
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Steve Cochran
Captain Claude Fontaine
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Raymond Massey
Sheik Yousseff
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Dick Wesson
Benjamin 'Benjy' Kidd
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Ray Collins
Gen. Birabeau
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Mark Dana
Lt. Duvalle
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Bhogwan Singh
Old Villager
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Jack Tornek
Riff Guard
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Cosmo Sardo
Legionnaire
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Charles Perry
Legionnaire (uncredited)