- The Algerian backdrop supplies stock figures - Irena, an exotic cafe dancer who pulls a knife on the lover who will not marry her; the servile guides Batouch and Hadj; a sand diviner dispensing desert mysticism - local Arabs as color for a European spiritual romance.
The Garden of Allah (1936)
film
- Distributor
- UA
- Cast
- Marlene Dietrich, Basil Rathbone, John Carradine, Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Brandon
- Production notes
- P: David O’Selznick. Based on Robert Hichens’ novel. Sequel to two silent films: Selig Polyscope’s The Garden of Allah (1916) and MGM’s Garden of Allah (1927)