Greg Morris, Jocelyn Lane and Peter Mann in THE SWORD OF ALI BABA (1965)
By 1965, most films used some sort of widescreen aspect ratio. When I watch this movie for the first time, the first thing that struck me was the fact that it was in Academy format, or 4:3. I thought that was odd until I realized the movie was re-using scenes fro ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES, from 1944. There was no widescreen movies back then. So they had to shoot in the same format as the 1944 film. This is what I remember mostly of it. I saw it on Drive-In Classics, a now defunct Canadian channel. I remember very little of it except for Gavin MacLeod, of THE LOVE BOAT, hamming it up as the villain and Jocelyn or Jackie Lane, who had already appeared in a good number of PEPLUM movies before this. In fact, the only reason to watch this oddity is for Jocelyn. I'm not familiar with Peter Mann and looking at IMDb profile, I know why. He had a short-lived career. Greg Morris would star in the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE TV series. I still don't have this movie in my collection. Just the trailer.
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Interesting about the aspect ratio decision.
More info on the stock footage used in a previous posting:
https://www.peplumtv.com/2010/12/stock-footage-dance-number.html
I wonder if the film quality was suitably matched and whether audiences who hadn't seen the 1944 film would have noticed anything. Also, Wikipedia says that the 1965 film was a remake of the 1944 film.
https://www.amazon.fr/-/en/Peter-Mann/dp/B07TPYXMYS/ref=sr_1_10?crid=11W3LXE2TC9J9&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Ql27iO2Pz-PQbAssaFbL6zLkpnngV78f_40SrZUGys99fMx6_6lN9HzLDd9uMDOX5L3aByubJPSF0YKX3GQ4Sv39ftzhvLbgozlybv1Ot1GbAZu239_GEF-7KO4C-6U1kzLStaOv9X3Djh4AgjnRF5b83HtxCj1-v-8Zq94PYcBarh0vvFr8Xp7zl_K4u5Lhc1CYEOmfZfghHdH434t8qC333YXTnWPqZZ6bmVrs0G0.BdDI7BCeEYFrr_u0vdOLRetL9vlqQ6qzS4K9r3-tdHE&dib_tag=se&keywords=ALI+BABA&qid=1762259944&s=dvd&sprefix=ali+baba%2Cdvd%2C328&sr=1-10
This is on DVD in France
General query from a newbie about comments and hyperlinks.
Is the comments section HTML-enabled so that one can use a hyperlink rather than copying a url address (which is what I normally do)?
The question arose when I saw the second comment.
Testing to answer my question:
Link to the DVD of the film
Thanks for mentioning the availability in France. I was aware of it. But looking the prices: shipping is 32 Euros and the only one that's new is 46 Euros. 78 Euros = $132 (conversion to Can) to get it. I'll pass for now.
OK, the hyperlink works in comments, but there is an intervening Redirection Notice step which might be annoying to users, so I will keep that in mind and perhaps only use it for very long url addresses.
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