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Director:
Writers:
True Boardman (additional dialogue)
Michael Hogan (screenplay)
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Release Date:
24 January 1944 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Dashing Thieves of Baghdad...riding out of the magic and splendor of
Plot:
Dancer Sherazade was told by the stars that she will become wife of the kalif in Bagdad. She tells Kamar... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. more
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User Reviews:
A beautiful fantasy adventure more (9 total)

Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)
Sabu ... Ali Ben Ali
Jon Hall ... Haroun-Al-Raschid
Maria Montez ... Scheherazade
Leif Erickson ... Kamar (as Leif Erikson)
Billy Gilbert ... Ahmad
Edgar Barrier ... Nadan
Richard Lane ... Corporal
Turhan Bey ... Captain of the Guard
John Qualen ... Aladdin
Shemp Howard ... Sinbad
William 'Wee Willie' Davis ... Valda
Thomas Gomez ... Hakim
Jeni Le Gon ... Dresser / Dancer's Maid
Robert Greig ... Eunuch
Charles Coleman ... Eunuch
Adia Kuznetzoff ... Slaver / Auctioneer
Emory Parnell ... Harem sentry
Harry Cording ... Blacksmith
Robin Raymond ... Slave girl
Carmen D'Antonio ... Harem girl
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Acquanetta ... Ishya (uncredited)
Carlos Alvarado ... Officer (uncredited)
Daniel Barone ... Tumbler (uncredited)
Robert Barron ... Bidder (uncredited)
John Berkes ... Blind beggar (uncredited)
Anthony Blair ... Bidder (uncredited)
Linda Brent ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Lane Chandler ... Majordomo (uncredited)
André Charlot ... Bidder (uncredited)
Ken Christy ... Provost Marshal (uncredited)
Paul Clayton ... Black boy (uncredited)
Rosemary Dempsey ... Harem girl (uncredited)
June Ealey ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Virginia Engels ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Phyllis Forbes ... Virgin (uncredited)
Frances Gladwin ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Amador Gutierrez ... Tumbler (uncredited)
Eloise Hardt ... Virgin (uncredited)
Al Haskell ... Bearded bidder (uncredited)
Jamiel Hasson ... Officer (uncredited)
Cordell Hickman ... Black boy (uncredited)
Elyse Knox ... Duenna (uncredited)
Frank Lackteen ... Bidder (uncredited)
Patsy Mace ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Murdock MacQuarrie ... Bidder (uncredited)
Edward Marmolejo ... Tumbler (uncredited)
Kermit Maynard ... Guard (uncredited)
Kathleen McCormack ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Art Miles ... Bidder (uncredited)
Mary Moore ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Alice Neilson ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Veronica Pataky ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Helen Pender ... Virgin (uncredited)
Eva Puig ... Old woman (uncredited)
Rebel Randall ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Suzanne Ridgeway ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Nedra Sanders ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Peggy Satterlee ... Virgin (uncredited)
Mickey Simpson ... Hangman (uncredited)
Pat Starling ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Nick Thompson ... Bearded bidder (uncredited)
Jean Trent ... Harem girl (uncredited)
Ben Ayassa Wadrassi ... Tumbler (uncredited)
Crane Whitley ... Officer (uncredited)
Ernest Whitman ... Nubian slave (uncredited)
Duke York ... Archer (uncredited)
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Directed by
John Rawlins 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
True Boardman  additional dialogue
Michael Hogan  screenplay
Michael Hogan  story

Produced by
Walter Wanger .... producer
 
Original Music by
Frank Skinner 
 
Cinematography by
Milton R. Krasner  (as Milton Krasner)
 
Film Editing by
Philip Cahn 
 
Art Direction by
Alexander Golitzen 
Jack Otterson 
 
Set Decoration by
Russell A. Gausman  (as R.A. Gausman)
Ira Webb  (as Ira S. Webb)
 
Costume Design by
Vera West (costumes: women)
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Fred Frank .... assistant director
Ford Beebe .... second unit director (uncredited)
 
Art Department
Dorothea Holt .... illustrator
 
Sound Department
Bernard B. Brown .... sound supervisor
William R. Fox .... sound
 
Stunts
David Sharpe .... stunt double: Sabu (uncredited)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
W. Howard Greene .... associate cinematographer
William V. Skall .... associate cinematographer
 
Music Department
Charles Previn .... musical director
 
Other crew
Jamiel Hasson .... technical advisor
Natalie Kalmus .... technicolor color director
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Additional Details

Runtime:
86 min
Country:
Language:
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This film marks the first use of 3-strip Technicolor by Universal. more
Quotes:
Scheherazade: I would swear I have seen this man before. But where?
Ali Ben Ali: Maybe in your dreams.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992) more

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9 out of 14 people found the following review useful.
A beautiful fantasy adventure, 24 August 2003
7/10
Author: NewEnglandPat from Virginia

This ancient fantasy of two brothers who are caliphs-in-waiting is a dazzling, colorful film presented in lush Technicolor. Maria Montez is the beautiful and exotic Sherazade who desires the trappings of wealth and power as she aspires to marry a caliph. Jon Hall is a virile and likable hero and Leif Erickson and Edgar Barrier are also good in supporting roles but it is Sabu who leaves the best impression in this picture. Nature's beauty of deep blue skies, thick white clouds and golden desert sand dunes are well-served in this yarn of palace intrigue and murder as the brothers battle for the kingdom's throne. Chase scenes, sword fights and comedy are sprinkled throughout the story but it is the vibrant color interiors and exteriors that arrest all attention in this film.

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