The Garden of Allah (1916 film)

The Garden of Allah is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell and starring Helen Ware, Tom Santschi and Eugenie Besserer.[1] 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.

The Garden of Allah
Directed byColin Campbell
Produced byWilliam Nicholas Selig
Written byGilson Willets
Based onThe Garden of Allah
by Robert Hichens
StarringHelen Ware
Tom Santschi
Eugenie Besserer
Production
company
Distributed byV-L-S-E
Release date
December 25, 1916
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent
English intertitles

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
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References

  1. Bernstein & Studlar p.100

Bibliography

  • Matthew Bernstein & Gaylyn Studlar. Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film. Rutgers University Press, 1997.


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