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Desert Nights

1929 film by William Nigh
Movie Film Q520732

Facts

20 properties
Instance of
film
Director
William Nigh[2]
Genre
romance film, adventure film, silent film[5][6][7]
Publication date
1929[16]
Screenwriter
Willis Goldbeck[3]
Producer
William Nigh[11]
Duration
+62[22]
Cast member
John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Mary Nolan[8][9][10]
Color
black-and-white[14]
Composer
William Axt[4]
Country of origin
United States[15]
Director of photography
James Wong Howe[13]
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[17]
Film editor
Harry Reynolds[20]
Filming location
California[19]
Narrative location
Africa[18]
Production company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[12]
Production designer
Cedric Gibbons[23]
Set in environment
desert[24]
Title
Desert Nights[21]
🏷️ Also known as
en Desert Nights de Wüstennächte es Noches del desierto es El desierto de la sed fr Les Nuits du désert it Notti nel deserto nl Woestijnnachten
🔖 Identifiers · 28
AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID
3692
AllMovie title ID
v89183
Apple TV movie ID
umc.cmc.3nxydvar8kvdbh6njrfywbrz0
BabelNet ID
01707271n
Cinema Context ID
F003761
Douban film ID
3204206
EIDR content ID
10.5240/CA06-A36A-2BBA-253D-78BB-R
FilmAffinity film ID
668651
FilmVandaag ID
film/89030
Filmová databáze film ID
182043
Freebase ID
/m/06_xb65
IMCDB work ID
19811
Show all 28 identifiers +16
IMDb ID
tt0019811
Kinobox film ID
318534
Kinopoisk film ID
30852
Letterboxd film ID
desert-nights
MYmovies audiovisual work ID
16571
Movie Review Query Engine ID
desert-nights-m100042061
MovieLens movie ID
285829
OFDb film ID
276350
Plex media key
5d77697247dd6e001f6c5a48
SilentEra.com film ID
D/DesertNights1929
TCM Movie Database film ID (archived)
1327
TMDB movie ID
119922
TheTVDB movie ID
47521
Trakt.tv ID
movies/desert-nights-1929
Trakt.tv film ID
83288
ČSFD film ID
286172

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🔗 Connections
Cast member 3
John Gilbert, Mary Nolan, Ernest Torrence
Genre 3
silent film, adventure film, romance film
Color 1
black-and-white
Composer 1
William Axt
Country of origin 1
United States
Director 1
William Nigh
Director of photography 1
James Wong Howe
Distributed by 1
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Film editor 1
Harry Reynolds
Filming location 1
California
Instance of 1
film
Narrative location 1
Africa
Producer 1
William Nigh
Production company 1
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production designer 1
Cedric Gibbons
Screenwriter 1
Willis Goldbeck
Set in environment 1
desert
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Summary

Desert Nights is a film[1].

Related Entities

California Cedric Gibbons film John Gilbert Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United States

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · MsMorale · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    IMCDB work ID → 19811
    "Created claim: IMCDB work ID: 19811, batch #269964"
  2. 11w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Filmová databáze film ID → 182043
    "Created claim: Filmová databáze film ID: 182043, batch #269265"
  3. 20w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Production designer → Cedric Gibbons
    MovieLens movie ID → 285829
    Producer → William Nigh
    Publication date → 1929
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #38315: MovieLens IDs (part 2)"
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