The Garden of Allah is a film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 directed by Rex Ingram

Rex Ingram (director)

Rex Ingram was an Irish film director, producer, writer and actor. Legendary director Erich von Stroheim once called him "the world's greatest director."-Early life:...

 and starring his wife, actress Alice Terry

Alice Terry

Alice Terry was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era, appearing in thirty-nine films between 1916 and 1933.-Career:...

. It was the second version of the Robert Hichens

Robert Smythe Hichens

Robert Smythe Hichens was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays. He is best remembered as a satirist of the "Naughty Nineties".-Biography:...

 novel, that had been filmed by the Selig company in 1916 with Helen Ware

Helen Ware

Helen Ware ; born Helen Remer, was an American stage and film actress. She had a gradual but ultimately successful Broadway stage career and by her thirties was playing the character parts for which she became famous. She began playing character parts in silent films in 1914 and continued into the...

 and would be filmed again in 1936 with Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...

 and Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found success in movies during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised romantic dramas,...

. 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
  Alice Terry
  Alice Terry was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era, appearing in thirty-nine films between 1916 and 1933.-Career:...
  
   - Domini Enfilden
• Iván Petrovich
  Iván Petrovich
  Iván Petrovich was a silent-and-sound motion picture Serbian actor....
  
   - 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
  Michael Powell (director)
  Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...
  
  - A Tourist

External links

• The Garden of Allah at SilentEra