The Garden of Allah (1936 film)

The Garden of Allah 1936 is a dramatic film made by Selznick International Pictures, directed by Richard Boleslawski and produced by David O. Selznick. The screenplay was written by William P. Lipscomb and Lynn Riggs, who based it on the 1905 novel by Robert S. Hichens. Hichenss novel had been filmed twice before, as silent films made in 1916 and 1927. This sound version stars Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer with Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Joseph Schildkraut, John Carradine, Alan Marshal, and Lucile Watson. The music score is by Max Steiner.

Trappist monk Boris Androvski Charles Boyer feels enormous pressure at having to keep his vows as a monk, so he flees his monastery. Yet he is the only one who knows the secret recipe of the monasterys famous liqueur, a recipe passed down from one generation of monks to another. Meanwhile, heiress Domini Enfilden Marlene Dietrich is newly freed from her own prison of caring for her justdeceased father and also seeks the exotic open spaces of the North African desert to nurture her soul.Androvski and Domini meet, fall in love, and are married by the local priest, after which the newlyweds are whisked off into the scorching desert a trip that the local sand diviner has forecast will bring happiness and a bad end. Domini is unaware of Androvskis past as a monk. ........

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