Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Wild nights of sheer delights! Burning days of bold adventure!
1944 | 87m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Arthur Lubin |
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| Writer: | Edmund L. Hartmann |
| Staring: |
| Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy. | |
| Release Date: | Jan 14, 1944 |
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| Director: | Arthur Lubin |
| Writer: | Edmund L. Hartmann |
| Genres: | Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Romance |
| Keywords | gang of thieves, bagdad, mongol, arabian nights, caliph |
| Production Companies | Universal Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Maria Montez | Amara |
| Jon Hall | Ali Baba |
| Turhan Bey | Jamiel |
| Andy Devine | Abdullah |
| Kurt Katch | Hulagu Khan |
| Frank Puglia | Prince Cassim |
| Fortunio Bonanova | Old Baba |
| Moroni Olsen | Caliph Hassan |
| Ramsay Ames | Nalu |
| Chris-Pin Martin | Fat Thief |
| Scotty Beckett | Young Ali Baba |
| Yvette Duguay | Young Amara |
| Noel Cravat | Mongol Captain |
| Jimmy Conlin | Little Thief |
| Harry Cording | Mahmoud |
| William 'Wee Willie' Davis | Arab Giant (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Arthur Lubin | Director |
| Russell F. Schoengarth | Editor |
| Edmund L. Hartmann | Screenplay |
| Edward Ward | Original Music Composer |
| George Robinson | Director of Photography |
| W. Howard Greene | Director of Photography |
| Paul Oscard | Choreographer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Jack J. Gross | Executive Producer |
| Paul Malvern | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 7 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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This bright and colourful cannibalisation of several "Arabian Nights" style stories sees Jon Hall play the prince robbed of his birthright by the evil Mongol Khan and his uncle "Prince Cassim", who has fallen in with the 40 Thieves since childhood and is bent on avenging this treachery. Maria Montez ... provides the glamour (and an accent you could cut with a knife) as the feisty, independently-minded Princess as we embark on some fun adventures. Andy Devine is dreadful as "Abdullah" but Kurt Katch hams up nicely and entertainingly as "The Khan". The film looks great and some of the swashbuckling sword fights well staged, but the acting is wooden, the script more so and the score intrusive (almost as if it were written for a silent film). It's a decent filler performance, but not amongst the best of the genre.