The Garden of Allah

Directed by: Rex Ingram, USA, France, 1927

USA, France, 1927
Szenenphoto aus The Garden of Allah, © , Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation


Cast and Credits

Production
Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
Distribution Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
Producer Rex Ingram
Production Manager Harry Lachman
Director Rex Ingram
Assistant Director Henri Menessier
Scenario Willis Goldbeck
Willis Goldbeck
Story Robert Smythe Hichens
Director of Photography Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes
Editor Lee Garmes
Set Decoration Henri Menessier
Cast Alice Terry [Domini Enfilden]
Ivan Petrovich [Father Adrien / Boris Androvsky]
Ivan Petrovich [Count Anteoni]
Humberston Wright [Lord Rens (as H.H. Wright)]
Pâquerette [Suzanne (AMA Mme. Paquerette)]
Gerald Fielding [Batouch]
Gerald Fielding [Ayesha, The Oulad Naïl (as Rheba)]
Gerald Fielding [The Bottle Dancer]
Gerald Fielding [Father Roubier, The Priest of Beni-Mora]
Gerald Fielding [Hadj]
John George [The Dwarf]
Frédéric Mariotti [The Arab Chief (as Fred Mariotti)]
Frédéric Mariotti [Algerian washing girl in the monastery]
Michael Powell [Tourist]
Michael Powell [Sand-Diviner [as Sin Leon]]
Michael Powell [Ivan Petrovich Double]
Michael Powell [Alice Terry Double]
Michael Powell
Alexander D'Arcy [(not credited)]
Alexander D'Arcy

Technical specifications
Category: Feature Film
Technical Details: Format: 35 mm - Ratio: 1:1,33 - Black and White,, 8500 feet, 9 reels
Sound System: silent
First Screening: September 2, 1927 in New York, Embassy Theatre
US Copyright: November 01, 1927 - ©LP 24611
Survival Status: Incomplete Prints of this picture are known [Archiv: Turner Entertainment]
Szenenphoto aus The Garden of Allah, © , Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation

Synopsis in German
Father Adrien, by taking the vow of silence, constant prayer, and chastity, gains entrance to the Trappist Monastery of Notre Dame d'Afrique in Algeria. While clearing a tree from the monastery wall, he accidentally knocks a young girl unconscious, and on reviving she intrigues him into an embrace; his sin is reported by an onlooker and he is forced to undergo penance; but the beauty of woman and the outside world entice him to renounce his vows and escape into the desert, resuming his secular name, Androvsky. En route to the oasis of Beni-Mora, he encounters Domini Enfilden, a deeply religious girl, and rescues her from a Bedouin riot. At a party in the gardens of Count Anteoni, she notes his fear of the cross and of priests, and he breaks away, frightened by a sand-diviner. In face of warnings, Domini marries Androvsky, and they go into the desert; Anteoni realizes his true identity but agrees to keep it secret. During a sandstorm, Androvsky confesses to having broken his vows and returns to the monastery to do penance. Years later, Domini sings to their son a song of freed Bedouin slaves: "Only God and I know what is in my heart." (AFI)

Reviews in German: «Wüstengegenden und Oasen, ein Trappistenkloster und ein Palmenparadies sind die Schauplätze des Goldwyn-Films "Der Garten Allahs". Es ist dies allerdings nicht von ferne jenes Nordafrika, das die Expeditionsreisenden in Lichtbildervorträgen schildern, wo die Wüstenklöster wie düstere Festungen aufragen, nur Kiefern (keine Palmen) den Sandstürmen trotzen, und die mohammedanischen Siedelungen vor Primitivheit fast zusammenfallen, sondern durch geschickte Einbauten und malerisch inszenierte Interieurs wurde ein pittoreskes Märchenland geschaffen, in dem die romantische Handlung wohlig aufblüht. Anerkannt sei vor allem die vornehme Linie des klar und einfach aufgebauten Geschehens, das ohne Intrigen und banale Zwangssituationen auskommt. Gegen den Schluss, wenn die beiden Hauptdarsteller sich zum Ernst ihrer Rollen erheben, geht von dem etwas romanhaften Motiv immerhin eine starke Gefühlswirkung aus. Das Orchester versteht ausgezeichnet aus der Stimmung der Bilder heraus zu musizieren.» (br., Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 11. Januar 1929 / 2)


General Information

The Garden of Allah is a motion picture produced in the year 1927 as a USA, France production. The Film was directed by Rex Ingram, with Alice Terry, Ivan Petrovich, , Humberston Wright, Pâquerette, in the leading parts.

Bibliography - Motion Picture News, July 8, 1927, pg 32 [note]
- New York Times, September 3, 1927 [review]
- New York Times September 11, 1927
- The Film Daily, September 11, 1927, pg 6 [review]
- Motion Picture News, September 16, 1927, pg 850 [note]
- Motion Picture News, September 16, 1927, pg 861/62 [stills and review]
- The Garden of Allah, Program of the Tivoli, Strand, London 1928
- The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania, April 16, 1929, pg 7 [review]
- Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 11. Januar 1929, pg 2 [review]
- DeWitt Bodeen, Films in Review, March 1975, Alice Terry Filmography # 23;
- Harry Waldman, Missing Reels, Jefferson and London 2000, pg 246f
- Vittorio Martinelli, L'eterna invasione, Gemona 2002, pg 248

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