I had vague memories of watching this has a child at the drive in - a film with flying carpets, genies, little kids and so on... for a time I wasn't sure it existed, but figured out this was it.
Its curiously not well know while other Kevin Connor-John Dark collaborations are... It was also a long time out of circulation. Which is weird because the piece obviously has value as a family perennial.
Handsome production values. The guy who plays the kid is good. Chris Lee has a fine old time as an evil vazir.. Mickey Rooney pops up in a wordless cameo which is fun; Peter Cushing also has a small role. There's also two familiar American-actors-in-English-films-of-the-70s, John Ratzenberger and Shane Rimmer.
The romantic leads are Olivier Tobias and Emma Samms who are individually fine but there's too much of an age gap between them. They needed to age him down or age her up.
The story is also wonky -they didn't play close enough attention to those 40s and 50s Easterns. Samms just hangs around instead of participating in the action and there's too many scenes of Lee watching the action on an old Arabian style version of a TV. It's a wonky story.
Still it looks good and kids should like it.
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