- The remake keeps the pattern: the Riff tribesmen fight under El Khobar - here a mild-mannered professor in Arab guise - and prove their worth by helping the French put down an uprising, leaving Arabs cast as either the menace or the followers of a disguised Westerner.
The Desert Song (1953)
film · 1953 film by H. Bruce Humberstone
- Director
- H. Bruce Humberstone
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Distributor
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Genre
- musical film
- Cast
- Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Raymond Massey, Steve Cochran