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Arabian Nights is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Rawlins released in USA on 25 december 1942 with Sabu
Arabian Nights (1942)
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Add to a movie listArabian Nights is a 1942 adventure film starring Sabu, Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Leif Erickson and directed by John Rawlins. The film is derived from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights but owes more to the imagination of Universal Pictures than the original Arabian stories. Unlike other films in the genre (The Thief of Baghdad), it features no monsters or supernatural elements.
The film is one of series of "exotic" tales released by Universal during the war years. Others include Cobra Woman, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and White Savage. This is the first film by Universal to use the three-strip Technicolor film process.
Synopsis
The story starts at a harem (which strangely has the Taj Mahal in sight, even though it is supposed to be located in Persia), where the elderly overseer bids his young charges to read the story of Haroun al-Rashid (Hall) and his wife Scheherazade (Montez), unfolding the film's plot in the process.Actors
Sabu
(Ali Ben Ali)
Jon Hall
(Haroun-Al-Raschid)
María Montez
(Sherazade)
Leif Erickson
(Kamar (as Leif Erikson))
Billy Gilbert
(Ahmad)
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