The Desert Song (1953)
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Title: The Desert Song
Original Title: The Desert Song
Release Date: 1953-05-30
Status: Released
Rating: 6.5/10 (from 4 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Music, Romance
Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures
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.
Cast
Kathryn Grayson
Margot Birabeau
Gordon MacRae
El Khobar / Paul Bonnard
Steve Cochran
Captain Claude Fontaine
Raymond Massey
Sheik Yousseff
Dick Wesson
Benjamin 'Benjy' Kidd
Allyn Ann McLerie
Azuri
Ray Collins
Gen. Birabeau
Paul Picerni
Hassan
Frank De Kova
Mindar
William Conrad
Lachmed
