Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
Lawrence Hanray
- Kasim Baba
- (as Laurence Hanray)
Francis L. Sullivan
- The Caliph
- (as Francis Sullivan)
Kiyoshi Takase
- Entertainer at Feast
- (as Kyoshi Takase)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis film's title was Stan Lee's inspiration for the Marvel Comics character of Fin Fang Foom.
- Alternate versionsWhen reissued by Lippert in the 1950s, the film was "revised" and cut, first to 93 minutes, then to 78. This version is titled "Ali Baba Nights."
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Featured review
Britfilm with GUTS!!
Think of Michael Powell/the Korda brothers' Thief of Bagdad but better, even! An Arabian nights adventure but no stops for spectacle, rather a seamless story and an unrestrained telling almost unprecedented in British film. The sets are wonderful, there are songs popping up in the least expected places, the direction has a verve rarely seen elsewhere in British film and the story is adapted with guts and no fear that restraint (any) must be employed, as it usually is, it seems neccesarily, in British film. It's a film which goes all the way in all departments, astonishing for any age let alone for 1934, just a year after Korda's Private Lives of Henry VIII had opened things up a bit for Britfilm.
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- lambchopnixon
- Jul 6, 2004
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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