Ali Baba Goes to Town
1937 film by David Butler / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ali Baba Goes to Town is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, and Roland Young. Cantor plays 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. This film was the second of three in which Shirley Temple and Cesar Romero appeared together, second was Wee Willie Winkie (1937) and The Little Princess (1939).[1]
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Directed by | David Butler |
Written by | C. Graham Baker Gene Fowler Gene Towne Harry Tugend Jack Yellen |
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Starring | Eddie Cantor Tony Martin Roland Young |
Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
Edited by | Irene Morra |
Music by | Robert Russell Bennett |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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."