| The Desert Song | |
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| Directed by | H. Bruce Humberstone |
| Screenplay by | Max Steiner Roland Kibbee |
| Based on | The Desert Song 1926 play/book by Oscar Hammerstein II Otto A. Harbach Frank Mandel Laurence Schwab |
| Produced by | Rudi Fehr |
| Starring | Kathryn Grayson Gordon MacRae Raymond Massey |
| Cinematography | Robert Burks |
| Edited by | William H. Ziegler |
| Music by | Sigmund Romberg |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2 million (US)[1] |
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., 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.
- ^ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', Variety, January 13, 1954