Hollywood made many Arabian Tales on the fifties and sixties with huge box-office, also in Europe but mainly in Italy, it was a charming genre, plenty of adventures, flying carpet, friendly outlaws heroes, black villains, many pretty Princess, magicians, fantasy, Genius of lamp, winged horse, whatever you can imagine, "Il Ladro di Bagdad" bring the American bodybuilder Steve Reeves for the leading role, he plays Karim a sort of Arabian Robin Hood, stealing of the rich to give to the poor people, until meeting with the Princess Amina (Giorgia Moll), when appears the Grand Vizier Gamal (Daniele Vargas) who wants a political alliance with Baghdad marrying with the Princess, otherwise he will takes the city by his powerful Army, however the Princess Amina refuses such dirty agreement, then a magician prescribe a potion that she will falling in love to Vizier if she wasn't falling in love before, she stays sick for an indefinite period, then came up an old magician (The Funny George Chamarat) exposing how she could be save, a brave man should be finds and bring a blue rose after the seven gates will be saves and got her heart, a dozen men sign up to the deadly journey including Karim and the shady Vizier, using old special effects on several image overlay, scale model, painting backdrop and many others means giving a magical look on the enterprise, masterfully designed with valuable results, great funny adventure !!!
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First watch: 1980 / How many: 4 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7.5
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First watch: 1980 / How many: 4 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7.5