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Fortunately, there's also a series of unusual supporting performances. John Tobles-Bey as Umstetter's sidekick Navarro is lively and especially effective in the comedy sequences. He's a vigorous, charming con man. Ernie Hudson, as tough-guy Bagdad, sings "The Impossible Dream" in a scene which absolutely mesmerizes. It's a spooky, lucid moment in a movie that is often confused...
...permanent subculture in American cities. By their badges you shall know them: Institute of Internal Auditors, Farm and Power Equipment Dealers, Norwegian Singers Association of America, National Sash and Door Jobbers, Odd Fellows, Jaycees, Telephone Pioneers, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Ancient Mystic Order of Bagmen of Bagdad, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (also Does), Knights of Pythias (also of Columbus, Equity, St. John, York and Templar), United Commercial Travelers, Automotive Dismantlers and Recyclers, neurologists, gynecologists, anesthesiologists, otorhinolaryngologists, Funeral Directors and Morticians, Sugar Beet Technologists and Hot Dip Galvanizers...
...Accra, Algiers, Amsterdam, Bagdad, Bamako, Brussels, Colombo, Conakry, Copenhagen, Damascus, Djakarta, Helsinki, Kabul, Karachi, London, New Delhi, Nicosia, Paris, Rabat, Rangoon, Rome, Stockholm, Teheran, Tunis and Vienna...
Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad...
...pull fewer rivets out of civilization than, for example, a single lunch counter on 14th Street, which is S.R.O. now in the Nativity season, under a towering sign: THE PRINCE OF PIZZA. As far as its night life is concerned, New York is no longer O. Henry's Bagdad-on-the-Subway...