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Arabian Nights

Play trailer Poster for Arabian Nights Released Dec 25, 1942 1h 26m Fantasy Play Trailer Watchlist
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Scheherazade (Maria Montez), Sinbad, Aladdin and an acrobat (Sabu) help Baghdad's real caliph (Jon Hall) dethrone his bad brother.

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Nancy Banks-Smith Guardian Arabian Nights was lavish entertainment, with some good actors, mostly lost in whiskers, excellent effects like the flying carpet, and sly lines woven in to amuse the adults. Feb 25, 2020 Full Review John Leonard New York Magazine/Vulture They should have adapted, instead of Arabian Nights, a children's book that derives from (while modernizing) the same classic text -- Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Feb 6, 2018 Full Review Grant Watson Fiction Machine It runs a tight 90-minutes: it gets in, does exactly what it says on the tin, and gets back out with efficiency. Rated: 6/10 May 16, 2023 Full Review Dennis Harvey 48 Hills To watch this Arabian Nights now is to take in a rainbow of hues you’d forgotten existed... Jul 18, 2022 Full Review Charles Cassady Common Sense Media A fresh, but long, take on the classic stories. Rated: 5/5 Dec 14, 2010 Full Review TV Guide Rated: 4/5 Jul 30, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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jordan m They did a good job with the costumes, which were surprisingly revealing for a 40s movie, and with creating a plot that doesn't exist in the tales the movie is ostensibly based on, but with this coming hot on the heels of 1940's Thief of Bagdad there wasn't much that ended up sticking with me for more than a couple days after my viewing. They didn't do anything with this movie that hadn't been done better by a predecessor. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Gives a wrong shape to Arabian culture as if it was the intention. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Arabain nights (2000) made for TV mini-series. Abit long, but it's a made for TV type of mini 2 part movie. Its can be digested in chunks. Although I watched it in one long sit in. It doesnt focus on the stories of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves or Aladdin too much. Those are treated more like side stories here. But they are saved thanks to the long run time. And it's the stories which are the most interesting part. All in all. It's a thumbs up from me. Arabian nights is definitely worth a watch. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Very underrated. The movie is long, but is truly captivating. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Never feel bored something about the magic lamp and Alladin Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Frances H Okay, but not spectacular. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/16/16 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Scheherazade (Maria Montez), Sinbad, Aladdin and an acrobat (Sabu) help Baghdad's real caliph (Jon Hall) dethrone his bad brother.
Director
John Rawlins
Producer
Walter Wanger
Screenwriter
True Boardman, Michael Hogan
Distributor
Film Classics Inc., Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Pictures [us]
Production Co
Universal Pictures
Genre
Fantasy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 25, 1942, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Feb 6, 2007
Runtime
1h 26m
Sound Mix
Mono