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...forget Sabu the Elephant Boy, and concentrate on Maria Montez, you won't mind this distorted version of the Arabian Nights. The scenery is in Arizona, not Arabia, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba are comics, and the story revolves around a dispute between two brothers as to who shall buy Caliph. Whatever liberties Hollywood has taken with the original are more than justified by luscious harem scenes and Maria Montez in technicolor. As a movie it is worth one, but as entertainment at least...
Arabian Nights (Universal) would be just another oldtime sheik picture but for 1) sleek Maria Montez, 2) Technicolor. The new year will be Technicolor's year, and in Technicolor Miss Montez will help make it happy...
...picture is full of fire, galloping steeds and sword play-most of the playing by copper-torsoed Jon Hall, who plays Haroun-Al-Raschid to Miss Montez' Sherazade. But that is not all. The picture is, besides, an unusually effective Technicolor job. Best shots: the play of sunlight and shadow across the rich bronze desert sands...
...studio (20th Century-Fox) plans to make 25% of its features in color. The Technicolor Motion Picture Corp., which processes color film for all the studios, is turning out some 7,000,000 feet a month. But not many of the feet will be as pretty as Miss Montez...
...fearing much on that score, Robert Benchley, Coles Phinizy, and Arthur Viner have just finished writing the first draft of this season's "revue." Topically alive, considering the onslaught of Montez, Woodworth and Maxie Rosenblum upon the Yard, the plot will revolve around Hollywood situations...