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The Desert Song (1953)

Kathryn Grayson (Actor), Gordon Macrae (Actor), H. Bruce Humberstone (Director) Rated:
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4.2 out of 5 stars 75 customer reviews
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  • Actors: Kathryn Grayson, Gordon Macrae
  • Directors: H. Bruce Humberstone
  • Format: NTSC
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: Warner Archive Collection
  • DVD Release Date: September 15, 2014
  • Run Time: 111 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (75 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00NLOKIOA
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,603 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 starsLove those old musicals!!
By A Customer on October 12, 2000
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I love those old musicals, and Gordon Macrae's wonderful baritone makes this one of my favorites. Macrae is a Clark Kent-ish anthropologist: mild, scholarly, and uninterested in love, also disguised as "the man of action" El Khobar, the secret Riff leader, dedicated to protecting the desert people in time of need. To spice up the plot enter Margot: the vibrant and capricious general's daughter who is searching for excitement and love. Add to this the hilarious gossip columnist who will risk anything to get his story, a jealous palace dancer rival for El Khobar's love, a dastardly villain, and a hauntingly beautiful musical score, along with the backdrop of the beautiful African desert. This operetta acheives a wonderful balance of romance, comedy, action, and music that you just don't see anymore!
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Desert Song Fantastic
By Barbara Owen on February 26, 2002
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This movie I enjoyed the most the songs are wonderful, The color great, Fun musical for the whole family. Love the music, costumes and the dancing. GREAT! GREAT!
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4.0 out of 5 starsthe riding, scenery, true romance and above all the music
By A Customer on August 7, 1999
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the only thing that was a little disappointing was some of the backdrops when not being shot on location. It was very refreshing to watch a movie that had good old fashion romance and was just wonderful etertainment without all the gore, blood and guts, foul language and no-talent actors.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThrilled again!
By Mary Helen Cederholm on February 9, 2005
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This movie was as I remembered seeing it in the 1950's. Gordon Macrae is the handsome dashing hero, who happens to have one of the greatest singing voices ever. (He was Curly in Oklahoma.) So the movie is a bit smuchly! It is still one of the most romantic movies ever. If you want all the music of the operetta, you'll have to buy an audio recording. But still all the favorites are here. Pop some popcorn, light the fire, put your feet up, and enjoy.
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5.0 out of 5 starssands of time
By Mr. Barry Ratcliffe on January 7, 2015
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warner bros. 3rd filming of the desert song and the most colourful with Gordon macrea and m-g-m's Kathryn grayson on good singing form Raymond massey on good villainous form and dick Wesson doing pretty much the comedy he did in calamity jane nice version
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4.0 out of 5 starsGreat fun.
By Richard B. Schwartz TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on July 30, 2007
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Great fun; great kitsch. The opening scenes with the obvious rear-screen projection, matte paintings, and intercut desert footage are laughable from a directorial point of view. The plot is stereotypical, but perfect, with unctuous baddies, a mustachioed rival, and uppity leading lady. As soon as Gordon and Kathryn begin to sing, however, we are transfixed, and all of the cinematic hoo-ha dissolves in the schmaltz of Sigmund Romberg. In short, it's delicious, and you succumb to it because the songs are so wonderful. And with Ray Collins as the wise general who helps sort out Arabia, what more could you ask? Note, there really were riffs and they really did have a legendary leader--in Morocco.
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4.0 out of 5 starsMemories
By lady saule on November 7, 2012
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I grew up watching the older movies on late night tv. I always loved the musicals and this one is one of my favorites. I am so glad that I found it. When it arrived, I made my family sit down and watch it with me. They agreed that it was good; better than they thought it would be.
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Robin Hood of the Sahara
By Chrijeff VINE VOICE on July 16, 2015
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Improbable and politically incorrect but tuneful and exciting, this is the most recent film incarnation of Sigmund Romberg's 1926 operetta, "inspired," says Wikipedia, "by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Moroccan fighters, against French colonial rule...[and] by stories of Lawrence of Arabia aiding native guerrillas." (Purists should note that most of the songs from the stage production have been eliminated, for reasons unclear, and several others have had their lyrics altered, while a new one, "Gay Parisienne," has been added.)

In the 1920's in French Morocco, the Riff tribe of desert nomads has broken out in banditry, not against the French, but against their treaty-partner and administrator, Sheik Yousseff (Raymond Massey), a subtle and clever man who has managed to thoroughly pull the wool over the eyes of local Foreign Legion commander Capt. Claude Fontaine (Steve Cochran). The Legion has been treating the situation as Top Secret, but word has leaked out all the same, bringing brash and persistent New York reporter Benjy Kidd (Dick Wesson) to town, where he's taken rooms with Paul Bonnard (Gordon MacRae), B.Sc., M.A., LL.D., Ph.D., an anthropologist who spends much of his time out on the desert, living with the tribes and studying their customs. Or so he'd have everybody think--for in reality Bonnard is El Khobar, the Riff chieftain, who has mounted a clever campaign against Youssef and the private army he's assembling under the very noses of the French.Read more ›
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