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The Desert Song

6.5 110 mins Music   Romance   1953
Warner Bros. Pictures  
Director(s): H. Bruce Humberstone

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.

Casts of The Desert Song

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

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

Ben Astar

as Sheik

Bhogwan Singh

as Old Villager

Jack Tornek

as Riff Guard

Cosmo Sardo

as Legionnaire

Charles Perry

as Legionnaire (uncredited)

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