The Garden of Allah

The Garden of Allah is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Rex Ingram, his final film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Ingram’s wife, actress Alice Terry and Iván Petrovich. It is the second version of the Robert Hichens 1904 British novel of the same name, which had been filmed by the Selig Polyscope Company in 1916 with Helen Ware and would be filmed again in 1936 with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer. An incomplete print of The Garden of Allah still exists and is preserved at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists film archive. Plot Father Adrien (Iván Petrovich), a monk at the Trappist monastery of Notre Dame d'Afrique in Algeria, abandons his vows and escapes to the desert, where he meets and rescues Domini (Alice Terry). Cast Alice Terry as Domini Enfilden Iván Petrovich as Father Adrien Marcel Vibert as Count Anteoni H.H. Wright as Lord Rens Pâquerette as Suzanne (Credited as Madame Paquerette) Gerald Fielding as Batouch Armand Dutertre as The Priest of Beni-Mora Ben Sadour as The Sand Diviner Claude Fielding as Hadj Rehba Bent Salah as Ayesha Michael Powell as A Tourist