Baroud is a 1932 British-French adventure film directed by Rex Ingram and Alice Terry and starring Felipe Montes, Rosita Garcia, and Pierre Batcheff. Actor Paul Henreid debuted in a small role. The film was released in separate French and English-language versions, the latter sometimes known by the title Love in Morocco.[Cook p. 182]
It was the final film of Ingram, a leading Hollywood director of the silent era, and the last film appearance by Alice Terry, a leading Hollywood star of the silent era and Ingram's wife. The title is the Berber languages word for war.
Plot
It is set in
French Morocco. Two soldiers in the
, one a Frenchman and the other the son of a chief allied to the French, are friends, but quarrel when the Frenchman becomes romantically involved with the other's sister. They join forces again to repulse an attack by a hostile tribe.
Cast
English version
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Felipe Montes as Si Alal, Caid de Ilued
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Rosita Garcia as Zinah, his daughter
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Pierre Batcheff as Si Hamed
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Rex Ingram as André Duval
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Arabella Fields as Mabrouka, a slave
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Andrews Engelmann as Si Amarok
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Dennis Hoey as Captain Sabry
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Laura Salerni as Arlette
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Frédéric Mariotti
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Alice Terry
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Paul Henreid (film debut in a bit part)
French version
Bibliography
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Cook, Pam. Gainsborough Pictures. Cassell, 1997.
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