Arabian Nights
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Directed by	John Rawlins
Produced by	Walter Wanger
Written by	Screenplay: Michael Hogan Additional dialogue: True Boardman
Starring	Sabu Jon Hall Maria Montez Leif Erickson Billy Gilbert Turhan Bey Shemp Howard
Music by	Frank Skinner
Cinematography	W. Howard Greene Milton R. Krasner William V. Skall
Editing by	Philip Cahn
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	December 22, 1942
Running time	87 min.
Country
Language	English
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Arabian Nights is a 1942 adventure film starring Sabu, Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Leif Erickson and directed by John Roberts. The film is derived from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights but owes more to the imagination of Universal Pictures than the original Arabian stories. The film is one of series of "exotic" tales released by Universal during the war years. Others include Cobra Woman, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and White Savage. This is the first film by Universal to use the 3 strip Technicolor film process. John Aaron Rawlins (February 13, 1831 – September 6, 1869) was an United States Army general during the American Civil War, a confidant of Ulysses S. Grant, and later U.S. Secretary of War. ... Walter Wanger (July 11, 1894 - November 18, 1968) was an important American film producer. ... Michael Hogan (born ? in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada is a Canadian actor. ... Sabu in The Jungle Book Sabu Dastagir (January 27, 1924 – December 2, 1963) was a motion picture actor known by his first name, Sabu. ... Jon maddog Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International [1], a non-profit association of computer vendors who wish to support and promote the Linux operating system. ... Maria Montez was the stage name of María África Gracia Antonia Vidal de Santos Silas (June 6, 1912, Barahona, Dominican Republic - September 7, 1951, Paris, France). ... Leif Erickson (October 27, 1911 – January 29, 1986) was an American actor. ... Billy Gilbert was an American comedian and actor most known for his odd and unusual sneeze routines. ... Turhan Bey (born Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Sahultavy on March 30, 1922 in Vienna) is a popular Hollywood leading man of the 1940s. ... Samuel Shemp Howard / (Horwitz) (March 17, 1895 – November 22, 1955) was part of the Three Stooges comedy team. ... Christopher Graham Collins, aka Frank Skinner (born 28 January 1957 is an English writer and comedian. ... W. Howard Greene was an Academy Award winning cinematographer. ... Milton R. Krasner was a film cinematographer. ... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... Sabu in The Jungle Book Sabu Dastagir (January 27, 1924 – December 2, 1963) was a motion picture actor known by his first name, Sabu. ... Maria Montez was the stage name of María África Gracia Antonia Vidal de Santos Silas (June 6, 1912, Barahona, Dominican Republic - September 7, 1951, Paris, France). ... Jon maddog Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International [1], a non-profit association of computer vendors who wish to support and promote the Linux operating system. ... Leif Erickson (October 27, 1911 – January 29, 1986) was an American actor. ... John Glover Roberts Jr. ... Queen Scheherazade tells her stories to King Shahryar. ... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... 1944 melodrama/adventure film from Universal Studios, written by Scott Darling and Gene Lewis, and directed by Robert Siodmak. ... The adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves was added to the traditional collection of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights by its European transcriber, Antoine Galland, an 18th-century French orientalist who had heard it in oral form from a Maronite story-teller from Aleppo. ... Logo celebrating Technicolors 90th Anniversary Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation (a subsidiary of Technicolor, Inc. ...