Thursday, September 18, 2025

Musings!


Tony Di Mitri, Gordon Mitchell and Amedeo Trilli making faces in ALI BABA AND THE SEVEN SARACENS (1964)

I like this movie and I even 'fixed' years ago so nothing but 💕 towards it but it does have unintentionally funny scenes in it, including this one. The three actors are making these funny faces. With the language barrier going on, it's not hard to imagine that they often didn't get what was going on. At one point, Gordon Mitchell stated he had enough of it all and didn't read the lines correctly and simply swore (not specifically for this movie but on other productions...). In the original Italian version, Ali Baba is actually Sinbad. It's an odd Sinbad story in that the story takes place entirely on land. No Seven Seas and such. It's not a major issue but retitling the character Ali Baba makes sense.
 

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