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...Rome. Now the east bank cannot even support its 400,000 people, who get along only because London, for strategic reasons, ships in ?8,000,000 sterling a year to Jordan. Mesopotamia (now Iraq), in the fabled caliphate of Harun al-Rashid (786-809), supported 30 million people; Bagdad had a population of 2,000,000, and 30,000 public baths. Today, all Iraq barely supports 5,000,000 people, and last week a New York Times reporter described much of Bagdad as "a festering slum." An entire civilization once flourished in the Negeb, with terraced lands, inns for wayfarers...
Oberon's plot: to regain his wife, Oberon, King of the Elves, scours the earth to find a faithful couple. He finds a brave knight and his beloved who are shipwrecked escaping from Bagdad; she is captured by pirates, pursued by a sultan, rescued by her knight, and finally blessed by Charlemagne. Oberon, of course, turns up at every crucial moment to rescue his charges...
...traditional way is to take $5,000,000, reconstruct downtown Bagdad in the outskirts of Las Vegas, hire three leading historians to supply the facts and six writers to grind them to a proper pulp, buy at least four big names for the marquee, get rolling with a colossal publicity campaign, and then hope that people will rush to see the picture before their friends tell them...
With a plot that requires virtually the entire population of Bagdad, including Omar Khayyam, Kismet casts Actor Drake as a resourceful poet who is, at different times, not only rich man, poor man, beggar man and thief, but also magician, prisoner, emir, and father of a beauteous maiden (Doretta Morrow) who wins the love of the caliph. Seldom has the path of true love run with so many detours, or so many halts to let caravans go by. Nor is the score notably helpful. Some eerie things have happened to Russian Composer Borodin's brilliantly eerie music, and though...
...book by Charles Lederer & Luther Davis; music by Alexander Borodin; musical adaptation and lyrics by Robert Wright & George Forrest) seems to have mistaken itself at times for a supercolossal film. The production cost $400,000, and thanks to Lemuel Ayres's eye for color and sense of medieval Bagdad, a great deal of Kismet could not be more satisfactorily sumptuous. But Kismet is too weighted down with finery to be at all fast on its feet, and even with Alfred Drake to pace it, most of it is just resplendently tedious...