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The Garden of Allah
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780764007453
Format: Color, Original recording remastered, NTSC
ISBN: 0764007459
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: October 10, 2000
Running Time: 85 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: November 19, 1936
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Editorial Review:
Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer play a pair of lost souls who meet in the desert. She is the sheltered Domini, looking for spiritual enlightenment in the Sahara. He is Boris, a young monk who has abandoned the monastery, wanting to experience the outside world. Together, they fall in love and try to come to terms with their mutual guilt while having a passionate affair. C. Aubrey Smith and Basil Rathbone serve as guides for Domini. John Carradine cameos as a bizarre fortune teller.
Unfortunately, even an excellent cast can't save this sandy soaper from itself. Although the Technicolor cinematography is gorgeous, and Dietrich sports a new and more stunning gown for every desert occasion, viewers will find no oasis to quench their thirst. Basically, this is a very early version of Hollywood's "sex and sand" films, so popular in the 1950s--lush, unusual, and ultimately silly. --Mark Savary
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Visually stunning restoration - Dietrich never looked lovlier!
All classic films deserve to be seen on their own terms. "The Garden of Allah" is a product of 1936 Hollywood and an excellent product it is!
Early in the film we learn that a Trappist monk has run away from the monastery and forsaken his vows. When this is revealed to his brother monks their shock is almost palpable through the camera and across the decades. The runaway priest (Charles Boyer) soon crosses paths with a beautiful, kind and wealthy woman (Marlene Dietrich) who is ... Read More
Rating: - Marlene glows in "Garden"
THE GARDEN OF ALLAH, produced by David Selznick in 1936, was famously one of the first movies to employ the use of the complete three-strip Technicolor process. Certainly, it was the first time that a film had been shot on location using the cumbersome Technicolor camera.
Following the death of her father, Domini Enfilden (Marlene Dietrich) journeys into the exotic deserts of Northern Africa to contemplate her life on a personal pilgrimage. There she meets Boris Androvsky (Charles Boyer), ... Read More
Rating: - BEAUTIFUL
This picture is the first movie entirely in color, and is beatiful. The story is simple: a monk in conflict with his faith meets a lovely lady who confuses him more. The subject is touched with tact and in a delicate way. Very recomandable. Timeless.
Rating: - Dabbling in the Desert
To be sure, this 1936 David O. Selznick production has a very tame storyline, bland even, by today's standards. But what it does have is Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer and Basil Rathbone and a steller cast, with beautiful music and some of the best Technicolor ever produced. It's well worth having as an example of Hollywood color filmmaking at its best.
Rating:  - von Sternberg, movie-doctor for Selznik
I own this movie and am proud of it. It's part of my Dietrich collection. Oh, I know this is not one of her best movies, but that wasn't her fault. She jobbed out of Paramount. Selznik wanted her and was willing to pay her price, and she did it. Business is business. Nothing personal.
Why did he want her? Charles Hingam puts it very well in these lines from his MARLENE: "By 1934 Marlene was established as the most glamorous of international stars. In the midst of the Depression, with ... Read More
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