The Garden of Allah (1927 film)

The Garden of Allah
Directed by	Rex Ingram
Produced by	Rex Ingram
Written by	Willis Goldbeck
Based on	The Garden of Allah by Robert S. Hichens
Starring	Alice Terry Iván Petrovich Marcel Vibert
Music by	William Axt Edward Bowes David Mendoza
Cinematography	Monroe Bennett Lee Garmes Marcel Lucien
Edited by	Arthur Ellis
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	September 2, 1927 (1927-09-02)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles

The Garden of Allah (1927) is a film directed by Rex Ingram and starring his wife, actress Alice Terry. It was the second version of the Robert Hichens novel The Garden of Allah, that had been filmed by the Selig company in 1916 with Helen Ware and would be filmed again in 1936 The Garden of Allah with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer. The film was shot at a studio in Nice, France, and the desert exteriors were filmed in North Africa.

Plot

Father Adrien (Iván Petrovich), a monk at the Trappist monastery of Notre Dame d'Afrique in Algeria, abandons his vows and escapes to the desert, where he meets and rescues Domini (Alice Terry).

Cast

• Alice Terry - Domini Enfilden
• Iván Petrovich - Father Adrien
• Marcel Vibert - Count Anteoni
• H.H. Wright - Lord Rens
• Pâquerette - Suzanne (as Madame Paquerette)
• Gerald Fielding - Batouch
• Armand Dutertre - The Priest of Beni-Mora
• Ben Sadour - The Sand Diviner
• Claude Fielding - Hadj
• Rehba Bent Salah - Ayesha
• Michael Powell - A Tourist

External links

• The Garden of Allah at the Internet Movie Database
• The Garden of Allah at AllMovie
• The Garden of Allah at the TCM Movie Database
• The Garden of Allah at the American Film Institute Catalog
• The Garden of Allah at SilentEra