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The Desert Song

The Best Loved of all Musical Adventures!

30 May 1953
  • United States of America
110 mins
6.5
4 votes
  • Music
  • Romance
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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.
  • Kathryn Grayson

    as Margot Birabeau
  • Gordon MacRae

    as El Khobar / Paul Bonnard
  • Steve Cochran

    as Captain Claude Fontaine
  • Raymond Massey

    as Sheik Yousseff
  • Dick Wesson

    as Benjamin 'Benjy' Kidd
  • Allyn Ann McLerie

    as Azuri
  • Ray Collins

    as Gen. Birabeau
  • Paul Picerni

    as Hassan
  • Frank De Kova

    as Mindar
  • William Conrad

    as Lachmed
  • Trevor Bardette

    as Neri
  • Mark Dana

    as Lt. Duvalle

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