Synopsis
The best loved of all musical adventures!
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
1943 Directed by Robert Florey
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
The technicolor makes this look really great but the music makes this a little on the odd side but it was still somewhat enjoyable. But nothing standouts so it will be forgotten easily but worth the watch at least once.
Odd hodge-podge of tone and style. I love Dennis Morgan, and he has a beautiful voice, but why can't he ever just sing like a person? Even when he's up close in an intimate moment with a woman, he blasts with that perfectly trained, perfectly enunciated, perfectly projected tenor of his.
Visually beautiful and exotic, but they gave this the wrong tone. The sophisticated operatic singing of Dennis Morgan did not suit the war mood. Nor did the typical stage numbers which would have been right at home in regular musicals. Just not in a desert war story like this. Being able to look past that, this was a colorful and lively experience, which had a few thrills and diversions.
Orientalist backlot morale booster as perpetual wet blanket Dennis Morgan rouses Arab tribes against Nazi influence, with attractive color and blithe good cheer not quite making up for the feeling that everyone's mostly going through the motions. A movie that lives humbly and rather desultorily in the shadows of films it inadvertently echoes, from Casablanca to Lawrence of Arabia.
i kept thinking of tarzan every time he did his arab call
also during margot’s first number she is wearing almost the exact same necklace as loretta young did to the oscars
Colorful if dated musical isn't quite a match for the 50's remake but has good singing and with the reworking it received some off kilter parallels to Casablanca.
Dennis Morgan plays El Khobar, a masked rider, who leads his followers against the Nazis. The enjoyable music by Sigmund Romberg is the main reason for producing the operetta.