Ali Baba Goes to Town

Ali Baba Goes to Town

Infobox Film
name = Ali Baba Goes to Town


image_size = 250px
caption = Film poster
director = David Butler
producer = Darryl F. Zanuck
writer = C. Graham Baker
Gene Fowler
Gene Towne
Harry Tugend
Jack Yellen
narrator =
starring = Eddie Cantor
Tony Martin
Roland Young
music = Robert Russell Bennett
cinematography = Ernest Palmer
editing = Irene Morra
distributor = Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
released = 29 October 1937
runtime = 80 min.
country = United States
language = English
budget =
gross =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0028566

"Ali Baba Goes to Town" is a 1937 movie starring Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, and Roland Young. Cantor is a hobo named Aloysius "Al" Babson, who walks into the camp of a movie company that is making the "Arabian Nights". He falls asleep and dreams he is in Baghdad as an advisor to the Sultan (Young). He organizes work programs, taxes the rich, and abolishes the army, in a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal.

The cast also includes Gypsy Rose Lee, using the stage name of Louise Hovick, as the Sultana.The Raymond Scott Quintette also appears, performing "Twilight In Turkey."

A clip from "Ali Baba Goes to Town" is shown in the movie "The Day of the Locust", in which Karen Black plays an aspiring actress in 1930s Hollywood. A brief shot of Black is edited into the "Ali Baba" footage to create the impression that her character played a bit role in that film.

Cast

*Eddie Cantor ... Ali Baba/Aloysius 'Al' Babson
*Tony Martin ... Yusuf/Announcer at Premiere
*Roland Young ... Sultan
*June Lang ... Princess Miriam
*Gypsy Rose Lee ... Sultana (as Louise Hovick)
*Raymond Scott ... Orchestra Leader (as Raymond Scott and His Quintet)
*John Carradine ... Ishak/Broderick
*Virginia Field ... Dinah
*Alan Dinehart ... Boland
*Douglass Dumbrille ... Prince Musah
*Maurice Cass ... Omar, The Rug Maker
*Warren Hymer ... Tramp
*Stanley Fields ... Tramp
*Paul Hurst ... Captain
*Sam Hayes ... Radio Announcer/Assistant Director

External links

*imdb title|id=0028566|title=Ali Baba Goes to Town


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