Arabian Nights (1942)

Directed by

John Rawlins

Genre

action film, adventure film, circus film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 55 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is an adventure film set in a fictionalized Arabian world. A story from the Arabian Nights is adapted with colorful characters and no fantasy monsters.

lightheartedwhimsicalcolorfulbreezyexoticromanticizedfast-pacedtheatrical

What happens

Arabian Nights is a 1942 American adventure film in Technicolor, directed by John Rawlins and starring Jon Hall, Maria Montez and Sabu. The film is derived from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights but owes more to the imagination of Universal Pictures than the original Arabian stories. Unlike The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and other films in the genre, it features no monsters or supernatural elements. The film is one of series of "exotic" tales released by Universal Pictures during World War II. Others include Cobra Woman, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and White Savage. This is the first feature film that Universal made using the three-strip Technicolor film process, although producer Walter Wanger had worked on two earlier Technicolor films for other studios: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) at Paramount and the 1937 Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 for United Artists. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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