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The Garden of Allah (1936)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:4
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.8/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: In THE GARDEN OF ALLAH, Domini, a society girl (Marlene Dietrich) mourning the death of her father, travels to the Sahara. There she finds romance with Boris, a monk (Charles Boyer) who has... In THE GARDEN OF ALLAH, Domini, a society girl (Marlene Dietrich) mourning the death of her father, travels to the Sahara. There she finds romance with Boris, a monk (Charles Boyer) who has recently abandoned the monastic life but remains torn between religious devotion and worldly desire, particularly desire for the exceptionally alluring Domini. Dietrich was photographed so beautifully that the cameramen won special Oscars for this early Technicolor film. [More]
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Tilly Losch, Basil Rathbone
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Tilly Losch, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Joseph Schildkraut, John Carradine, Alan Marshal, Lucile Watson, Henry Brandon, Helen Jerome Eddy, Charles Waldron
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Screenwriter: W.P. Lipscomb, Lynn Riggs
Producer: David O. Selznick
Composer: Max Steiner
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Reviews for The Garden of Allah
More a collection of character vignettes than a full-blown story, Garden Party nonetheless shows as much promise for its makers as it gives to its characters.
Nothing new in writer-director Jason Freeland's Garden Party, then, nor anything particularly insightful about the mercenary business of getting by and ahead out here.
It's familiar stuff if you've sampled the vast body of work devoted to LA-dammerung.
The stars talk gibberish in this romantic melodrama as if they have sand in their mouth.
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