The Garden of Allah is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell and starring Helen Ware, Tom Santschi and Eugenie Besserer.Bernstein & Studlar p.100 It is based on the 1904 novel of the same title by Robert Smythe Hichens, adapted a number of times including a 1937 sound film starring Marlene Dietrich. Location shooting took place in the Mojave Desert.
Plot
Cast Helen Ware as Domini Enfilden Tom Santschi as Boris Androvsky Will Machin as Capt. De Trevignac Matt Snyder as Count Anteoni (*aka Matt B. Snyder) Harry Lonsdale as Father Roubier Eugenie Besserer as Lady Rens James Bradbury Sr. as The Sand Diviner Al W. Filson as Lord Rens Cecil Holland as Hadj Frank Clark as Father Beret Billy Jacobs as Child Pietro Sosso as Batouch Camille Astor as Suzanna
Preservation A print of the film survives in the George Eastman Museum.
References
Bibliography Matthew Bernstein & Gaylyn Studlar. Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
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