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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
Saadia (film) movie poster

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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Saadia 1953 trailer


Cast

  • Cornel Wilde : Si Lahssen
  • Mel Ferrer : Henrik
  • Rita Gam : Saadia
  • Michel Simon : Bou Rezza
  • Cyril Cusack : Khadir
  • Wanda Rotha : Fatima
  • Marcel Poncin : Moha
  • Anthony Marlowe : Cpt. Sabert
  • Hélène Vallier : Zoubida
  • Mahjoub Ben Brahim : Ahmed
  • Jacques Dufilho : leader of bandits
  • Bernard Farrel : Lt. Camuzac
  • Richard Johnson : Lt. Girard
  • Peter Copley : Mokhazenis
  • Marne Maitland : horse dealer'
  • Harold Kasket : Sheikh of Inimert
  • Peter Bull : village leader
  • Eddie Leslie (as Edward Leslie) : a villager
  • 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

    Saadia (film) Wikipedia
    Saadia (film) IMDb Saadia (film) themoviedb.org