Back الليالي العربية (فيلم 1942) Arabic الليالى العربيه ARZ Arabische Nächte (1942) German Arabian Nights Spanish شبهای عربی (فیلم ۱۹۴۲) Persian Les Mille et Une Nuits (film, 1942) French Le mille e una notte (film 1942) Italian Arabian Nights (film 1942) Polish Arabian Nights Portuguese Арабские ночи (фильм, 1942) Russian
| Arabian Nights | |
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| Directed by | John Rawlins |
| Written by | Michael Hogan (story and screenplay) True Boardman (additional dialogue) |
| Produced by | Walter Wanger |
| Starring | Jon Hall Maria Montez Sabu Leif Erikson Billy Gilbert Edgar Barrier Shemp Howard Thomas Gomez Turhan Bey Elyse Knox Acquanetta Carmen D'Antonio |
| Cinematography | W. Howard Greene Milton R. Krasner William V. Skall |
| Edited by | Philip Cahn |
| Music by | Frank Skinner |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures Company, Inc. |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $904,765[2] |
| Box office | $3,453,416[2] |
Arabian Nights is a 1942 adventure film directed by John Rawlins and starring Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu and Leif Erikson. The film is derived from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights but owes more to the imagination of Universal Pictures than the original Arabian stories. Unlike other films in the genre (The Thief of Bagdad), it features no monsters or supernatural elements.[3]
The film is one of series of "exotic" tales released by Universal Pictures during World War II. Others include Cobra Woman, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and White Savage.[4] This is the first feature film that Universal made using the three-strip Technicolor film process, although producer Walter Wanger had worked on two earlier Technicolor films for other studios: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) at Paramount and the 1937 Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 for United Artists.[5]
- ^ "Arabian Nights". American Film Institute. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
- ^ a b Matthew Bernstein, Walter Wagner: Hollywood Independent, Minnesota Press, 2000 p441
- ^ Article on Arabian Nights at Turner Classic Movies accessed 10 January 2014
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (April 9, 2022). "The Campy, Yet Surprisingly Interesting Cinema of Jon Hall". Filmiink.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911137/?ref_=nv_sr_2?ref_=nv_sr_2 [user-generated source]