The Golden Blade
His Blade Of Gold... A Legend In Battle! Her Kiss Of Surrender... The Prize Of Victory!
1953 | 81m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Nathan H. Juran |
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| Writer: | John Rich, William R. Cox |
| Staring: |
| Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 12, 1953 |
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| Director: | Nathan H. Juran |
| Writer: | John Rich, William R. Cox |
| Genres: | Adventure |
| Keywords | sword, campy, technicolor |
| Production Companies | Universal International Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Rock Hudson | Harun |
| Piper Laurie | Khairuzan |
| Gene Evans | Captain Hadi |
| George Macready | Jafar |
| Kathleen Hughes | Bakhamra |
| Steven Geray | Barcus |
| Edgar Barrier | Caliph |
| Alice Kelley | Handmaiden |
| Guy Williams | Town Crier (uncredited) |
| Dorinda Clifton | Dancer (uncredited) |
| Jack Baston | |
| Richard Carlson | Narrator (voice) |
| Martin Cichy | |
| Virginia Eiler | |
| Anita Ekberg | Handmaid |
| Roy Engel | |
| Frederic Berest | |
| Fred Graham | |
| Chuck Hamilton | |
| Ramsay Hill | |
| Charles Horvath | |
| Renate Hoy | |
| Dayton Lummis | |
| Olga Lunick | |
| Sydney Mason | |
| Merrill McCormick | |
| Tina Menard | |
| Harry Mendoza | |
| Bill Radovich | |
| Victor Romito | |
| John Roy | |
| David Sharpe | |
| Mickey Simpson | |
| Ellinor Vanderveer | |
| Dennis Weaver |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Nathan H. Juran | Director |
| Henry Mancini | Music |
| John Rich | Screenplay |
| Maury Gertsman | Director of Photography |
| Ted J. Kent | Editor |
| Jay A. Morley Jr. | Costume Design |
| Bernard Herzbrun | Art Direction |
| Eric Orbom | Art Direction |
| Russell A. Gausman | Set Decoration |
| Julia Heron | Set Decoration |
| William R. Cox | Original Story |
| Irving Gertz | Music |
| Herman Stein | Music |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Richard Wilson | Producer |
| Leonard Goldstein | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
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This is a tale that comes straight from the "Arabian Nights" compendium. The son "Harum" (Rock Hudson) out to avenge his father murdered at the hands of the evil "Jafar" (George Macready). He must travel to Baghdad where he encounters a feisty young woman "Khairuzan" (Piper Laurie) who is secretly t ... he daughter of the city's caliph - a man also in danger from the menacing ambitions of "Jafar". Luckily, she has a magical golden sword that she gives him to wield. He is invincible! Well he is until someone hits on the idea of swapping his sword for a less effective fake - and soon "Harum" is in a dungeon! Can he escape and save the Caliph and get the girl? Rock Hudson never really cut it for me. Easy enough on the eye, but his characterisations rarely differed from role to role and here he just doesn't really gel with the more charismatic Laurie at all. Plaudits do go to Macready, though - he hams up perfectly as the silken-clad, megalomanic, tyrant. There's plenty of lavish costumes, colour, sword-fighting and at times it's actually quite an entertaining adventure that I did quite enjoy.