Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
Lawrence Hanray
- Kasim Baba
- (as Laurence Hanray)
Francis L. Sullivan
- The Caliph
- (as Francis Sullivan)
Kiyoshi Takase
- Entertainer at Feast
- (as Kyoshi Takase)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis film's title was Stan Lee's inspiration for the Marvel Comics character of Fin Fang Foom.
- Alternate versionsWhen reissued by Lippert in the 1950s, the film was "revised" and cut, first to 93 minutes, then to 78. This version is titled "Ali Baba Nights."
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Featured review
This film would have been shown in New Zealand when I was about 7 or 8 I'm now 78. There are some films from that era that stand out in my mind and this is one of them. I must have seen thousands of films since, 95% now forgotten but I always remembered Chu Chin Chow and have waited for it in vain on TCM. Checked it out on Amazon and there it was on DVD, it arrived this morning and I have watched it in full. I'm not disappointed. It is hard to believe that this was a British production because it is way up there with the best of the Americans of the era. George Robey is great and Anna May Wong a gem. It is a DVD I'll watch more than once.
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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