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Marlene Dietrich is a wealthy orphan named Domini Enfilden, who proposes to the Mother Superior of the convent where she was brought up a difficult question. "What," Domini asks, "am I to do?" "Go away . . . perhaps, to the desert," says the Mother Superior. This is bad advice. First person Domini meets in the desert is Boris Andtovsky (Charles Boyer), a renegade Trappist monk out to discover, after breaking his vow of lifelong silence, just what it is that makes the world go round. When he has scraped acquaintance with Domini in a night club, they go riding. Without telling...
Main thing Domini and Boris have in common, conveniently for Producer Selznick's cameras, is a wish to see the desert. They do it in a caravan whose manager is a bubbling young Algerian named Batouch (Joseph Schildkraut). Tripping about the North Sahara they enjoy life to the full until one night a French Army officer, lost with his troop, happens on their camp. When Batouch brings in a bottle of the Trappist liqueur Lagarnine, the officer remembers where he has met Boris before. Without so much as saying, "It's a small world after all," he goes...
Next caller at the Androvsky tent is their mutual friend Count Anteoni (Basil Rathbone). He tells Domini what her husband is and she tells Boris that she knows his secret. For the next 20 minutes on the screen, Boris struggles with his lower nature. When last seen he is padding uphill to the monastery. Domini is driving off alone...
...Omnes sancti Apostoli et Evangelistae, orate pro nobis. Omnes sancti Discipuli Domini, orate pro nobis. Omnes sancti Innocentes, orate pro nobis...
...749th Year of Rome (Anno Urbis Conditae). He could not have been born later because Herod, who sought to have Him slaughtered along with the rest of the Jewish younglings, died the year following. For centuries after Christ's death no one thought to use Anno Domini as the base of a calendar. When the 6th Century monk Dionysius Exiguus finally did so, he made a miscalculation of four to six years which has not yet been rectified...