The Garden of Allah (1936 film)
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1936 US Theatrical Poster
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| Directed by | Richard Boleslawski |
| Produced by | David O. Selznick |
| Written by | William P. Lipscomb Lynn Riggs Willis Goldbeck |
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The Garden of Allah 1904 novel by Robert S. Hichens |
| Starring |
Marlene Dietrich Charles Boyer Basil Rathbone C. Aubrey Smith Joseph Schildkraut John Carradine Alan Marshal Lucile Watson |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography |
Virgil Miller W. Howard Greene (uncredited) Harold Rosson (uncredited) |
| Edited by | Hal C. Kern Anson Stevenson |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Garden of Allah (1936) is a dramatic film made by Selznick International Pictures, directed by Richard Boleslawski and produced by David O. Selznick. The screenplay was written by William P. Lipscomb and Lynn Riggs, who based it on the 1905 novel by Robert S. Hichens. Hichens's novel had been filmed twice before, as silent films made in 1916 and 1927. This sound version stars Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer with Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Joseph Schildkraut, John Carradine, Alan Marshal, and Lucile Watson. The music score is by Max Steiner.
It was the fourth film to be photographed in Three-strip Technicolor, and (uncredited) cinematographers W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson received a special Academy Award for advances in color cinematography. The filming locations were in Buttercup, California and Yuma, Arizona.
Trappist monk Boris Androvski (Charles Boyer) feels enormous pressure at having to keep his vows as a monk, so he flees his monastery. Yet he is the only one who knows the secret recipe of the monastery's famous liqueur, a recipe passed down from one generation of monks to another. Meanwhile, heiress Domini Enfilden (Marlene Dietrich) is newly freed from her own prison of caring for her just-deceased father and also seeks the exotic open spaces of the North African desert to nurture her soul.
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