Ali Baba Nights
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Chu Chin Chow (3-DVD)
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DVD-R Details
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 5, 2015
- Originally Released: 1934
- Label: Mr. FAT-W Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | George Robey, Fritz Kortner & Anna May Wong | |
| Performer: | John Garrick & Dennis Hoey | |
| Directed by | Walter Forde | |
| Edited by | Derek N. Twist | |
| Screenplay by | Walter Bullock | |
| Cinematography by | Mutz Greenbaum | |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
Entertainment Reviews:
71%
TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 14
The sets, photography and costumes are quite admirable, particularly in the robbers' cave.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
Rating: 2/5 --
Musical retelling of the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is well done, if a bit slow.
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TV Guide
The picture is not as colorful as the legitimate stage version, but it provides entertainment of the type that is well worth while.
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The Age (Australia)
U.S. cinemaddicts may find the photography in Chu Chin Chow inferior to most recent Hollywood musicomedies... but are likely to approve the decor, [music, and Anna May Wong,] the only performer in the cast whose name is familiar to them.
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TIME Magazine
The producers of the film, having a more malleable medium to work with, had an opportunity to out-glitter the stage production, but they have not done so.
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Sydney Morning Herald
This lavish musical from the British studios is a colorful, extravagant costume film that makes its bid for attention purely on an extravaganza platform, and makes the grade.
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Variety
Rating: 3/5 --
George Robey's performance as Ali Baba is forever enshrined here, and there's some interesting period casting, with Anna May Wong as Zahrat the slave girl and villain Fritz Kortner as boss of the 40 thieves.
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Radio Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
Ali Baba discovers the treasure cave of robber-baron Abu Hasan, and tells his greedy brother, Kasim Baba, who is posing as a Chinese merchant and entertaining Hasan, where the cache is hidden. Zahrat, acting as a spy for Hasan, is blamed when the robber is almost caught, and Kasim is killed. Zahrat then decides to join Ali and his son, Nor-al-din, who is in love with the slave-girl, Marjanal. During a party, she kills the disguised Hasan, and his men are boiled in oil.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 61,659
- UPC: 887936917318
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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