The Garden of Allah

Richard Boleslawski (director)
Robert Hitchens (novel)
W. P. Lipscomb and Lynn Riggs (screenwriters)
Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith (starring)

London: Pisces Group / International Coproductions, 1976. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1976 UK re-release of the 1936 US film. Distributor (Canada) rubber-stamps on the versos.

Nominated for two Academy Awards (1937), and based on Robert Hitchens' novel, about Domini (Marlene Dietrich), an heiress who visits the North African desert for spiritual renewal. There she meets Boris (Charles Boyer), who has recently escaped from a Trappist monastery. Their friendship ripens into love, but he conceals his past from her.

A story set in North Africa, shot on location in California and Arizona.

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.


[Book #132832]