The Garden of Allah (1936)

Directed by

Richard Boleslawski

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man and a woman meet in the desert and fall in love. He is a monk who has left his monastery, and she is a woman fleeing her past. Their romance is tested by his struggle with his vows and the harsh desert surroundings.

romanticsolemnvisually lushdramaticslow-burntenderearnestglamorous

What happens

The Garden of Allah is a 1936 American adventure drama romance film directed by Richard Boleslawski, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer. The screenplay was written by William P. Lipscomb and Lynn Riggs, who based it on the 1904 novel of the same title by Robert S. Hichens. Hichens's novel had been filmed twice before, as silent films made in 1916 and 1927. The supporting cast of the sound version features Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Joseph Schildkraut, John Carradine, Alan Marshal, and Lucile Watson. The music score is by Max Steiner. It was the third feature film to be photographed in Three-strip Technicolor, and (uncredited) cinematographers W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson received a special Oscar for advances in color cinematography. The filming locations were in Buttercup, California and Yuma, Arizona. Filming started on April 15, 1936 and ended by July 3, 1936. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Desert Gold (1936)
• The Petrified Forest (1936)
• Arizona Mahoney (1936)
• Magnificent Brute (1936)
• Camille (1936)
• María Elena (1936)
• North of Nome (1936)
• It Had to Happen (1936)