Siren of Bagdad (1953)
- Directed by
- Richard Quine
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A traveling magician in medieval Iraq tries to rescue his dancing girls from slavery. He teams up with a woman who wants to overthrow a corrupt vizier, and his sidekick uses magic to turn into a blonde woman with a funny voice.
lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulcomedicromanticfast-pacedcolorfulcampy
What happens
Siren of Bagdad is a 1953 Technicolor fantasy adventure film produced by Sam Katzman and directed by Richard Quine set in the medieval Iraq. It stars Paul Henreid as a travelling Master magician who seeks to recover his troop of beautiful dancing girls who are to be sold into slavery. Patricia Medina portrays his love interest who seeks to overthrow the corrupt Grand Vizier with the magician's help. Hans Conried plays the sidekick to Quine's magician, who is transformed into a beautiful blonde woman who spies and distracts the Grand Vizier while retaining Conried's voice. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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