The Garden of Allah (1927)
- Directed by
- Rex Ingram
- Genre
- drama film, silent film, romance film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rating
- 10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A silent romantic drama about a woman and a man in the North African desert. Their relationship is tested by secrets and the harsh landscape.
melodramaticromanticslow-pacedexoticdatedlush visualssombersilent-era
What happens
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. Due to the public's apathy towards silent films, a sound version was prepared and released in 1928. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it features a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The film was released in both sound-on-disc and sound-on-film formats. This film was 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. An incomplete print of The Garden of Allah still exists and is preserved at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists film archive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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