The Desert Song
The Best Loved of all Musical Adventures!
1953 en 110 minutes
Rating: 6.5
Plot
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.
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Cast
	Kathryn Grayson
Margot Birabeau
	Gordon MacRae
El Khobar / Paul Bonnard
	Steve Cochran
Captain Claude Fontaine
	Raymond Massey
Sheik Yousseff
	Dick Wesson
Benjamin 'Benjy' Kidd
	Allyn Ann McLerie
Azuri
	Ray Collins
Gen. Birabeau
	Paul Picerni
Hassan
	Frank De Kova
Mindar
	William Conrad
Lachmed
	Trevor Bardette
Neri
Mark Dana
Lt. Duvalle
	Ben Astar
Sheik
	Bhogwan Singh
Old Villager
Jack Tornek
Riff Guard
	Cosmo Sardo
Legionnaire
Charles Perry
Legionnaire (uncredited)