Tongue-in-cheek fantasy film set in Baghdad and loosely based on the One Thousand and One Nights medieval story.Tongue-in-cheek fantasy film set in Baghdad and loosely based on the One Thousand and One Nights medieval story.Tongue-in-cheek fantasy film set in Baghdad and loosely based on the One Thousand and One Nights medieval story.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 2 nominations total
Eddie Abdo
- Muezzin
- (uncredited)
Francine Ames
- Handmaiden
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Bailer
- Harem Girl
- (uncredited)
Trevor Bardette
- Hasson
- (uncredited)
Noble Blake
- Blackamoor
- (uncredited)
David Bond
- Herald
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaShelley Winters is most easily spotted as one of Adele Jergens' blonde handmaidens, standing in the background at the aborted wedding scene.
- GoofsTwo prison guards fall over each other in their haste to catch escaped prisoners but as one gets up the back of his white neck shows up against his dark Arab facial makeup.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Kanya Ya Ma Kan, Beyrouth (1995)
- SoundtracksBeauty for Sale
(uncredited)
Performed by Cornel Wilde (dubbed by Tom Clark)
Music by Saul Chaplin
Lyrics by Edgar De Lange
Featured review
The humor is awesome
The funny elements of this actually is well done. Especially for this being of that era. This movie is taken from the fairytales, and there are some beginning parts I think are like whatever and about to not check this, but it gets better, and you just accept all of the comedy which is capably done. This coulda been a by-the-book fairytale of the Nights yet the comedic take is a wise but also tall order to make it function for audiences, let alone audiences of like eras later. Another thing is mixing of genres: I am for sticking to one genre and using its qualities solely to make it good, not lazily latching on to another genre to make the movie function better when they cannot figure out how to make the genre's own qualities function, heck genres exist for a reason, when audience craves this or that: salty or sweet snack? What is astounding is the main funny man, the picaro, glasses-wearing guy is very reminiscent of the same similar glasses-guy 2 decades later in Mad, Mad, etc. World, of the hat-wearing glasses guy in that movie with the same comedic style, but done 2 decades prev. Whoa. THAT guy is probably the funniest character to me in that movie, and here it is like that type. The main hero is acceptable, especially during the reign of Flynn, for sword wielding heroes, and the genie lady manages to also add levity to this thing, which rather than do a rote-version of this tale which could have happened, making these fairytales as sources to make a comedy around is actually genius.
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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