Saadia (film)

Saadia
Directed by Albert Lewin
Written by Albert Lewin
Based on Échec au destin
by Francis D'Autheville
Starring Mel Ferrer
Cornel Wilde
Music by Bronislau Kaper
Cinematography Christopher Challis
Edited by Harold F. Kress
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
December, 1953
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1,022,000[1]
Box office $1,352,000[1]

Saadia is a 1953 adventure film directed by Albert Lewin. Set in Morocco, and based on a novel by the French writer Francis D'Autheville, it tells of a love triangle.

Cast

Production

Filmed entirely in Morocco, this film 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.[2]

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.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. Ellis, David A. (2012). Conversations with Cinematographers. Scarecrow Press. p. 54. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
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