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5.7/10 • 32

1936-10-141h 19m

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Two loves in conflict!

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

Directors
Richard Boleslawski
Editors
Hal C. Kern

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  1. Marlene Dietrich

    Marlene Dietrich

    Domini Enfilden

  2. Charles Boyer

    Charles Boyer

    Boris Androvsky

  3. Basil Rathbone

    Basil Rathbone

    Count Ferdinand Anteoni

  4. C. Aubrey Smith

    C. Aubrey Smith

    Father J. Roubier

  5. Joseph Schildkraut

    Joseph Schildkraut

    Batouch

  6. John Carradine

    John Carradine

    Sand Diviner

  7. Alan Marshal

    Alan Marshal

    Capt. De Trevignac

  8. Lucile Watson

    Lucile Watson

    Mother Superior Josephine

  9. Henry Brandon

    Henry Brandon

    Hadj

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CinemaSerf

Dec 4, 2024

6/10

Holy orders don't always suit everyone, as this rather disappointing drama concedes with neither "Domini" (Marlene Dietrich) and "Boris" (Charles Boyer) having the spirit to see their vows through. She is told by her reverend mother that maybe a time of reflection is in order, and where better than the Sahara. He? Well he has a slightly more duplicitous story to tell but that isn't something he immediately shares with her when they encounter amidst the shifting sands. Indeed, his Trappist monk malarkey quite endears him to her and soon they are head over heels. Now for the fly in the ointment. A bedraggled regiment of Foreign Legionnaires arrives at their remote oasis, and their captain (Alan Marshal) finds something familiar about the man! Whilst these sandy shenanigans are ongoing, we have the aristocratic count "Anteoni" (Basil Rathbone) keen on our lady, the mischievous "Irina" (Tilly Losch) with her nose out of joint and John Carradine wandering around trying to find water using divining rods. It's perhaps worse because the cast - which also includes C. Aubrey Smith - looks quite so impressive on paper, and it's a shame that this turns out to be so mundanely pedestrian. It doesn't help that they clearly never left the studio, but there's nothing at all between Dietrich and Boyer and Rathbone's camel isn't the only thing that looks like it's taken the hump. It might have looked better, or at least more authentic, had it been filmed in monochrome but sadly it wasn't, doesn't and isn't anyone's finest eighty minutes. Sorry.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$2,200,000.00
Revenue
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Keywords
based on novel or bookchristianitymonkforeign legionromanceremakereligiondesertheiressalgeriacatholic priestarabtechnicolorabbessconvent