Movie Details
Theatrical Release:September 2nd, 1927
Original Language:English
Production Companies:MetroGoldwynMayer Rex Ingram
Movie Tags:
desert
The Garden of Allah (1927)
Father Adrien had taken the vows of eternal silence prayer and of course celibacy when he entered the Trappist Monastry of Notre Dame dAfrique in Algeria One day he chopped down a tree that blocked a part of the Monastery wall but as it fell it knocked a young girl senseless As Father Adrien bathes her face she regains consciousness and in a mischievous mood embraces him The embrace was seen by another monk but the Monastic discipline imposed is as nothing compared to the torturing penances of mind and body which the contrite Father Adrien has imposed upon himself In the end it is all too much for poor Father Adrien and he abandons his vows and escapes into the desert resuming his secular name Androvsky On the way to the oasis of BeniMora he encounters Domini Enfilden who has been brought up as a Catholic Androvsky rescues Domini from a rioting crowd and she finds herself deeply attracted to him
