Saadia (film)
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Director Albert Lewin Duration Music director Bronislaw Kaper Country United States | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Running time 1h 22m Screenplay Albert Lewin Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Release date 1953 Writer Francis DAutheville (novel), Albert Lewin (screenplay) Cast Cornel Wilde (Si Lahssen), Mel Ferrer (Henrik), Rita Gam (Saadia), Michel Simon (Bou Rezza) Similar movies The Seventh Coin, Two Arabian Knights, The Barbarian, Bagdad, The Kingdom, A Prophet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Saadia is a 1953 adventure film directed by Albert Lewin and starring Mel Ferrer and Cornel Wilde. Set in Morocco, and based on a novel by the French writer Francis D'Autheville, it tells of a love triangle.
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Cast
Production
Filmed entirely in Morocco, Saadia is believed to have been the first Technicolor feature to have been filmed on location. The cinematographer Christopher Challis called it the most difficult production he had ever worked on. Lewin had pre-selected the sets on a pre-production tour of Morocco, however, unaware of the technical requirements of the large three-strip camera rig, interiors proved to be too small. Thus, there could be no long shots. Among his other eccentricities the film maker also had a horse transported more than a thousand miles to the set, but finding the tail too short, had fake ones made abroad and sent to the filming location.
Reception
According to MGM records the movie earned $580,000 in the US and Canada and $772,000 elsewhere, making a loss to the studio of $408,000.
References
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