A cheerful knock off of Thief of Bagdad - plenty of colour and movement, beautiful photography. Maria Montez plays the one sort of role she could play - a haughty danger. The script gleefully pillages old myths and stories: Montez plays Scherenadze, there's comic support characters Aladdin and Sinbad, plus Jon Hall as a secret prince and Sabu helping out. There's a fair bit of torture - Turnhan Bey appears as a cad who is tortured, and some other bloke is on the rack too.
Some action, dancing girls, a big fight. It set the template for the later Universal Easterns with Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson..
John Rawlins directed. He's not very famous but he does a dcent job. The studio techs are probably more to be praised.
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