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The Sword of Ali Baba (1965)

The Sword of Ali Baba poster
Directed by
Virgil W. Vogel
Genre
adventure film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 21m
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man gains possession of a magical sword and uses it to defeat a band of thieves. He also wins the love of a princess.

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What happens

The Sword of Ali Baba is a 1965 American adventure film from Universal Pictures, directed by Virgil W. Vogel and written by Edmund Hartmann and Oscar Brodney. The film stars Peter Mann, Jocelyn Lane, Frank McGrath, Gavin MacLeod, Frank Puglia, and Peter Whitney and is a remake of the 1944 film Ali Baba and the Forty Thives, which was derived from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights and the tale of the same name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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