A Thousand and One Nights

Thousand and One Nights is an occasionally strident but generally successful satire of the popular Universal Jon Hall/Maria Montez epics. Cornel Wilde stars as a twentyish Aladdin, whose magic lamp yields two genies: Collosus-like Rex Ingram (repeated the role he played in 1940's Thief of Baghdad) ...more

It's harder to get much sillier than A Thousand and One Nights, but in this instance silly pays off. This take-off on the familiar Aladdin tale may confuse some modern viewers with references that were so up-to-the-moment in 1945 but are ancient history now, but it's all done with such sparkle and such a sense of fun that most viewers will just shrug at the dated aspects and move on. Nothing in Nights is played very straight, and the result is not too far off from what Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and ...more