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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
EAN: 0025192419720
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 06, 2007
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 14128
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1942
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Product Description:
Lavish sets and costumes distinguish this story of two brothers competing for the throne of Turkey and the hand of the fiery dancing girl Scheherazade. A colorful escapist Technicolor fantasy and the first pairing of Hall and Montez. Academy Award Nominations: 4.System Requirements:Running Time: 87 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC Rating: NR UPC: 025192419720 Manufacturer No: 61024197
Amazon.com:
Warning: Technicolor silliness ahead, as Universal's nutty series of turban-and-camel movies comes into view. Arabian Nights was the first of these confections, and after it became a big wartime hit it spawned a series of follow-ups, most of them starring some combination of Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, and Turhan Bey. The story is nonsense, with Hall as a deposed caliph battling his half-brother (Leif Erickson) while remaining incognito amongst a group of traveling players. Montez plays dancing vixen Scheherazade, and her crazy costumes and limited acting range give ample evidence for her later enshrinement as a camp icon. The film's level of seriousness is aptly demonstrated by the casting of Shemp Howard (of the Three Stooges--like there's another Shemp Howard?) as Sinbad; John Qualen plays Aladdin, and vaudeville pro Billy Gilbert plays the leader of the troupe. Coming off best is Sabu, the young star of The Thief of Baghdad and The Jungle Book, whose innate likability is infectious even in these inane circumstances. Arabian Nights probably isn't the most fun of these movies; check out Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Robert Siodmak's crazed Cobra Woman, too. They work on two fronts: family-movie fodder and high camp. --Robert Horton
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Rating: -
I've always been a sucker for, "Old Hollywood" movies, with all their grandeur, great costumes, and pomp. Arabian Nights was a wonderful trip down memory lane to a movie I last saw on Bill Kennedy at the Movies, many, many years ago.
This is a 1942 gloriously technicolor movie that was just what America needed to take it's mind off our boys fighting in WWII. It starts off in a harem, where an older gentleman is sleeping/ snoring when he is supposed to be teaching the ladies in a harem ... Read More
Rating:  -
Not by a long shot. Actually quite boring in spots. Nice to look at but not as much of the type of fantasties I am used to from this period.
Rating:  -
Mindless, five-star fun in dazzling color! If you need to let go of some stress, worries or the urge to think, don't miss this perfect antidote to the world of 2008. Only topped by Cobra Woman which is sadly and mysteriously unavailable.
Rating: -
Classic tale via Hollywood before oil and politics and tech-savvy were on our minds. Engaging romantic and spirited escapism in the exotic moods of the Casbah, the Caliphate and the Carpet!
Rating: -
This movie is really a classic and besides been from the 1940's they have good special effects. It was a movie i used to watch as child, i used to love all the old classic movies, today is my passion.
I loved all the costumes.
By the way a clarification on a previous review.
Maria Montez was from the Dominican Republic, from the city of Barahona, not from South America.
As Dominican myself i'm very proud of what she acomplished and really sad of her passing so young. ... Read More
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