Siren of Bagdad
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Siren of Bagdad is a 1953 fantasy Technicolor
adventure film produced by Sam Katzman
and directed by Richard Quine
set in the middle age Persian Empire. It stars Paul Henreid as a travelling Master magician who seeks to recover his troop of beautiful dancing girls who are to be sold into slavery. Patricia Medina
portrays his love interest who seeks to overthrow the corrput Grand Vizer with the magician's help.
Hans Conried plays the sidekick to Qunie's magician who is transformed into a beautiful blonde woman who spies and distracts the Grand Vizar though maintains Conried's voice while as the blonde woman.
Technicolor
Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...
adventure film produced by Sam Katzman
Sam Katzman
Sam Katzman was an American film producer and director. Born into a poor Jewish family, Katzman went to work as a stage laborer at the age of 13 in the fledgling East Coast film industry...
and directed by Richard Quine
Richard Quine
Richard Quine was an American stage, film, and radio actor and film director.Quine was born in Detroit. He made his Broadway debut in the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical Very Warm for May in 1939 and appeared in My Sister Eileen the following year...
set in the middle age Persian Empire. It stars Paul Henreid as a travelling Master magician who seeks to recover his troop of beautiful dancing girls who are to be sold into slavery. Patricia Medina
Patricia Medina
Patricia Paz Maria Medina is an English actress from Liverpool, England. Her father was a Spaniard and her mother was English. Medina began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s...
portrays his love interest who seeks to overthrow the corrput Grand Vizer with the magician's help.
Hans Conried plays the sidekick to Qunie's magician who is transformed into a beautiful blonde woman who spies and distracts the Grand Vizar though maintains Conried's voice while as the blonde woman.
Cast
- Paul Henreid as Kazah the Great
- Patricia MedinaPatricia MedinaPatricia Paz Maria Medina is an English actress from Liverpool, England. Her father was a Spaniard and her mother was English. Medina began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s...
as Princess Zandi - Hans ConriedHans ConriedHans Georg Conried, Jr. was an American comedian, character actor and voice actor.-Early years:He was born on April 15, 1917 in Baltimore, Maryland to Hans Georg Conried, Sr. and Edith Beyr Gildersleeve. His mother was a descendant of Pilgrims, and his father was a Jewish immigrant from Vienna,...
as Ben Ali - Charles Lung as Sultan El Malid
- Laurette LuezLaurette LuezLaurette Luez was a United States supporting actor and successful commercial model who appeared in films and on television during a 20 year career. She was a widely known Hollywood celebrity during the 1950s, owing much to publicity about her social life...
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