Unless you’ve always longed to see Christopher Lee and Mickey Rooney cast in the same movie, Arabian Adventure is unlikely to give you much enjoyment.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Not so magic carpet ride
Unless you’ve always longed to see Christopher Lee and Mickey Rooney cast in the same movie, Arabian Adventure is unlikely to give you much enjoyment.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
#1 by Luke Blanchard on October 9, 2024 - 4:16 am
Quote
I wish I could like this film, but I find it charmless. It’s substantially a routine remake of The Thief of Bagdad (1940), a great movie.
Lee’s Alquazar is based on Conrad Veidt’s Jaffar, but his imprisoned soul is an imitation of the queen’s magic mirror from Snow White. My guess is the inspiration for this was Jaffar’s and the queen’s similar taste in clothing. The Mickey Rooney sequence imitates The Wizard of Oz.
The cave sequence where Majeed gets the rose may have been the inspiration for the cave Horcruz sequence in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
The screenwriter was Brian Hayles, who also wrote Warlords of Atlantis and the Ice Warrior stories from the original Dr Who. He died during the production.
The Cabal’s page seems to getting evil trackbacks.