The Desert Song professional Directed by Stephen Frears from

Directed by Stephen Frears from a scandalous 1782 novel and Christopher Hampton's compelling 1986 play

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Down is in especially fine form as the sexually provocative yet unresponsive wife who appears to want her husband dead

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The Desert Song professional Directed by Stephen Frears fromTake a famed operetta scored by Sigmund Romberg, update its tale of romance and heroics with the then current Nazi peril, include a lively cast and imaginative direction, burnish the burning desert sands with rich Technicolor cinematography and voila! That's 1943's The Desert Song. Now add an immaculate film restoration and resolve rights issues that had long kept this work out of circulation and at last this widely unseen spectacle can be enjoyed by