Warner Archive has it available! It was released less than two weeks ago, and I just ordered it! I can hardly wait! I was a small child when I saw The Desert Song with Dennis Morgan and Irene Manning. I saw it more than once at that time, and have never forgotten it. The scenery, the singing, and the story are all brought together for a delightful and memorable movie. Dennis Morgan remains my favorite movie actor, and I have VHS/DVD copies of almost all his other movies. This one should be in the mix! The fact that it hasn't been released to VHS or DVD is at tragedy and a travesty. Whatever the problems are in releasing - can someone either delete that portion or get the required permission? it has been more than fifty years. Surely whatever it is, it is now in the public domain. Is there no one at Turner who could manage to get this wonderful movie released? I have heard for a number of years that "someone is working on it," but see no evidence of it. How sad that so many unbelievably bad movies are available everywhere, but one of the best remains hidden. It may be hidden, but certainly not forgotten by so many fans of this wonderful movie.

I saw this movie in 1944 as a 7 year old and have never forgotten it after having fallen in love with the desert story line, music, and Dennis Morgan. Saw the movie several times and learned every line of every song. Of course I haven't seen it since and probably never will if there are problems in having it released. Five years ago, my daughter and my two youngest grandchildren moved to Muscat, Oman where I have visited them each winter since they arrived there. We always spend a few days at Al Areesh Desert Camp in the Wahiba Sands where I first began to sing The Riff Song for the kids. Although the Bedoins accompanying us think us a little daft, my 8-year-old granddaughter and I take great joy in she and I hopping on our camels, riding off in the sand singing, "Over the ground, there comes a sound.............". What great fun. She is dying to see the movie as am I. What a shame this is not possible.

As to why this film is not available, my sister who formerly lived in California thought this movie was privately owned by Irene Manning's and/or her husband and that is why it has not been released to the general public. I was very young when I saw this but remember the beautiful technicolor and music. When video came to be, I looked and looked but never saw anything about the movie and not even about the main stars Dennis Morgan and Irene Manning. I assumed that the decision not to put it on video and TV might have been a commercial one.

I saw this quintessentially sappy flick for the first (and only) time in March 1944 when I was an 18 year old infantryman in the US Army. Sort of reminded me of a Tarzan-type film with a desert instead of a jungle setting. No thundering herds of elephants and savage lions and tigers and bears (oh my!). In their place, camels, horses, and evil Arab tribesmen threatening poor Dennis Morgan and his minions.Whereas Tarzan would scream out "UNGAW-A-A" to summon his animal friends, in this flick a good guy would bellow out a minor-key riff of 4 notes -- AH-AHHH! AH-AHHH!. Then beyond the horizon and off-screen would come a thunderous male-voice response -- in perfectly voiced 2-part harmony. Then the sound of horses' hooves (camels', too? I can't remember)and again a hearty minor key response of AH-AHHH! AH-AHHH! -- as the good guys came to the rescue and Dennis Morgan crooned some totally inane lyric as the savage Berbers fled. (No wonder we all rooted for the Arabs)That's all I can remember. Time mercifully blots out the rest. All I remember is that stupid chant and the horses coming over the horizon. Then a cut to Dennis Morgan on his steed, waving the troops into the fray. This made such an impression on us GIs that for several weeks all one could hear in the barracks was the minor-key war cry: AH-AHHH! AH-AHHH! (And, of course, the appropriate response). We were all ready to join the French Foreign Legion. Instead a few months later, after the June 6, 1944 Normandy invasion, most of us ended up in France where there were no camels, alas. Only German tanks.