Gainsborough Pictures
Directed by Walter Forde
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, VCI Entertainment)
Standard Ali Baba tale livened up a bit by musical numbers that almost give it the feel of an operetta. Fritz Kortner gives a deranged performance as the evil Abu Hasan, who hides in a cave outside Baghdad plotting his next rampage of murder and robbery. He takes it personally when a poor merchant discovers the secret of entering the cave and steals him blind. He goes incognito to root him out, but things do not go as planned. There are a few subplots about romance with slave girls, but they are inconsequential. Some of the elaborate sets for the dance sequences would be right at home in a Busby Berkeley musical.
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