A desert dancing girl fights to protect the French agent she loves.A desert dancing girl fights to protect the French agent she loves.A desert dancing girl fights to protect the French agent she loves.
Larry Wheat
- Dick Jones
- (as Laurence Wheat)
Carrie Daumery
- Lady with Umbrella
- (uncredited)
Gretchen Waterman
- Little Girl
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaA November, 1923, interview with cinematographer Tony Gaudio mentioned that 400 cast and technicians worked on location in Oxnard for this film's desert scenes.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors (1993)
- SoundtracksThe Song of Love
Words by Jimmy Campbell
Music by Reginald Connelly (as Reg Connelly)
[c. 1924 (Great Britain), 'Inspired by the Associated First National Film "The Song of Love" starring Norma Talmadge]
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THE SONG OF LOVE stars Norma Talmadge at the height of her stardom in a heap of hokum with a lot of sand. She's a famous dancing girl in Algeria, sort of promised to Ramilka (Arthur Edmund Carewe), but she falls for another man (a limp Joseph Schildkraut) who is posing as an Arab but is really French. Ramilka is about to rally the clans and drive the Whites out of the city in the name of allah but of course Norma gets in the middle of everything and fouls up the plans. In the end, she sacrifices her great love for Schildkraut to go off with Ramilka and thereby saving his life. There are two endings and neither is very satisfying. Co-directed by Frances Marion, so this film is included in the recent women film pioneers collection. Carewe's name is misspelled as Carew in the credits and one intertitle omitted the word "do" and gave us "So with me as you will!" I know what I wanted to with it!
This is definitely the weakest of the Talmadge feature films I've seen. A major downfall is the casting of Schildrkaut as the romantic lead. He always reminds me of Michel Serrault in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, so all ideas of a romantic leading man are dissolved.
This is definitely the weakest of the Talmadge feature films I've seen. A major downfall is the casting of Schildrkaut as the romantic lead. He always reminds me of Michel Serrault in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, so all ideas of a romantic leading man are dissolved.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $223,125
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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