The read
Audiences rate it 22 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 19m.
Synopsis
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
Ratings
IMDb5.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes36%
Audiences rate it 22 points higher than critics do.
35 audience votes
Key crew
- W.P. LipscombScreenplay
- Lynn RiggsScreenplay
- Richard BoleslawskiDirector
- Max SteinerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Marlene DietrichDomini Enfilden
- Charles BoyerBoris Androvsky
- Basil RathboneCount Ferdinand Anteoni
- C. Aubrey SmithFather J. Roubier
- Joseph SchildkrautBatouch
- John CarradineSand Diviner
- Alan MarshalCapt. De Trevignac
- Lucile WatsonMother Superior Josephine
- Henry BrandonHadj
- Tilly LoschIrena
- Nigel De BrulierLector at Monastery (uncredited)
- John GeorgeWaiter (uncredited)
Stills
Themes
based on novel or bookchristianitymonkforeign legionromanceremakereligiondesertheiressalgeriacatholic priestarab