place = Los Angeles}}.| gross = $1,352,000}}Saadia is a 1953 adventure film directed by Albert Lewin and starring Mel Ferrer and Cornel Wilde. Set in Morocco, and based on a novel by the French writer Francis D’Autheville, it tells of a love triangle.

Plot

Cast

Cornel Wilde as Si Lahssen
Mel Ferrer as Henrik
Rita Gam as Saadia
Michel Simon as Bou Rezza
Cyril Cusack as Khadir
Wanda Rotha as Fatima
Marcel Poncin as Moha
Anthony Marlowe as Cpt. Sabert
Mahjoub Ben Brahim as Ahmed
Jacques Dufilho as leader of bandits
Bernard Farrel as Lt. Camuzac
Richard Johnson as Lt. Girard
Peter Copley as Mokhazenis
Marne Maitland as horse dealer
Harold Kasket as Sheikh of Inimert
Peter Bull as village leader
Eddie Leslie as a villager

Production

Filmed entirely in Morocco, Saadia 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.BOOK, Ellis, David A., Conversations with Cinematographers, 2012, Scarecrow Press, 54, 9780810881266,books.google.com/books?id=uA8DdKZSD0YC&q=Francis+D’Autheville&pg=PA54, June 29, 2015,

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.

References

External links

{{IMDb title|0046260|Saadia}}
Saadie at Melferrer.com
Saadia at New York Times

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