Bella Cortez and Gordon Mitchell in ALI BABA AND THE SEVEN SARACENS (1964)
The original Italian version was a Sinbad movie renamed and re-titled Ali Baba since the movie basically takes place entirely on land. Sinbad adventures don't necessarily need to be a '7 SEAS' adventure, as I posted in my magazine, but it's odd that we never see a ship or the ocean in this. Changing it to Ali Baba sorta made sense. The timeline of the US version, and presumably all English versions released, had an incorrect timeline. I posted about this 11 years ago. I have many different versions of this film. And yet, not one copy in HD.
2 comments:
Good insight about the lack of marine adventure. To your knowledge did ALI BABA AND THE SACRED CROWN start out as a Sinbad tale too?
ALI BABA AND THE SACRED CROWN was always an Ali Baba movie.
The original Italian title is: Le 7 fatiche di Alì Babà
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