Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens | Old Adventure Film | Action | Rebel Leader
Classic Adventure Film: Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens - A rebel leader returns to his city for a final confrontation with the evil king he is fighting. However, he finds himself attracted to the king's beautiful niece.
Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens (1964)
Director: Emimmo Salvi
Writers: Emimmo Salvi (story), Benito Ilforte (screenplay), Sergio Tocci (screenplay)
Stars: Gordon Mitchell, Bruno Piergentili, Bella Cortez
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: Italy
Language: English
Also Known As: Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens - Hawk of Bagdad
Release Date: 18 December 1964
Storyline:
A rebel leader returns to his city for a final confrontation with the evil king he is fighting. However, he finds himself attracted to the king's beautiful niece.
Reviews:
"Imagine a cheap peplum yarn with the loincloths replaced by colourful glittery clothes and what you have is ALI BABA AND THE SEVEN SARACENS, an often hilarious and entertaining far eastern adventure yarn, Italian-style, which follows as familiar a plot as there is. The good guys get captured, escape, are captured again and escape to triumph. Lots of action punctuates the story whilst characters change allegiance and friendships grow. From the very beginning you know that the bad guys are going to get what they deserve and the good guys are going to live happily ever after, but there's enough going on here to make you forget about the storyline.
The never heard-of Rod Flash stars as Ali Baba, and is about as wooden and uninteresting as you could get in a peplum film; personally I prefer my Italian hero to be a strongman (unless it's Cameron Mitchell) so Flash makes little or no impression. His thunder is stolen by Gordon Mitchell, who gives a fantastically over-the-top performance of scenery chewing as Omar, the evil bad guy. Mitchell delivers his cruel dialogue with relish and really seems to be having the ball, instantly adding to the entertainment value of the film. Also hanging around and looking voluptuous is Bella Cortez, a peplum mainstay and as beautiful as ever here. Amusing supporting characters include a guy with one of the most hilarious depictions of a nervous tic in screen history, and a wisecracking comic-relief dwarf who spends the entire running time crawling around in air vents like some miniature Bruce Willis.
Although the story is less than impressive, the action scenes are fluent and entertaining. Their simplicity gives them a raw power which I liked and you always know that somebody is going to fight in the next five minutes, so things never become boring. The finale involves a huge uprising against Mitchell and his soldiers which ends with a fantastically gory gag, much to the viewers enjoyment. On top of this, there's an over-the-top music score which goes out of its way to be exciting and plenty of bad dubbing to be enjoyed (!). All in all a fun way to spend eighty minutes with a cheesy Italian adventure yarn."
- written by "Leofwine_draca" on IMDb.com
Also Known As (AKA):
(original title): Simbad contro i sette saraceni
Brazil: Simbad, O Tirano do Deserto
Canada: Sinbad the Sailer
France: Exploits fantastiques de Simbad
France: Simbad contre les 7 sarrazins
France: Simbad contre les sept sarrasins
Greece: O Sevah enantion ton epta Sarakinon
Hungary: Ali Babine Pustolovine
Italy: Simbad contro i sette saraceni
Russia: Али-Баба
Soviet Union (Russian title): Али-Баба
Spain: Torneo a muerte
Turkey (Turkish title): Sinbat
UK (TV title): Ali Baba and the 7 Saracens
USA (TV title): Sinbad Against the 7 Saracens
USA (dubbed version): Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens - Hawk of Bagdad
West Germany: Die sieben Rachen des Adlers
World-wide (English title) (literal title): Sinbad and the Seven Saracens
Yugoslavia (Croatian title) (poster title): Ali Babine Pustolovine
(reissue title): Sindbad contro i sette saraceni
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