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.
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.
[2] 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.