The Desert Song (1953 film)
| The Desert Song | |
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| Directed by | H. Bruce Humberstone |
| Screenplay by | Roland Kibbee |
| Based on | The Desert Song 1926 play/book by Oscar Hammerstein II Otto A. Harbach Frank Mandel Sigmund Romberg Laurence Schwab |
| Produced by | Rudi Fehr |
| Starring | Kathryn Grayson Gordon MacRae Raymond Massey |
| Cinematography | Robert Burks |
| Edited by | William H. Ziegler |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2 million (US) |
The Desert Song is a 1953 film version in Technicolor of Sigmund Romberg's operetta. It is the third film version of the operetta, the third made by Warner Bros. Pictures, and the second in full three-strip Technicolor. Although it was released in 1953, it was not made in widescreen; at that time Twentieth-Century Fox held the rights to Cinemascope, which was introduced that year in the film The Robe.