Yankee Pasha (1954)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Joseph Pevney

Writers:

Joseph Hoffman (writer)
Edison Marshall (novel)

Release Date:

9 April 1954 (Finland)

Genre:

Adventure | Romance

Plot:

Salem, Massachusetts, 1800. Mountaineer Jason Starbuck rides into town with furs to sell and dreams to fulfill...

Plot Keywords:

Pirate | Harem | Slave | Redhead | Orient

Cast

Jeff Chandler	...	Jason Starbuck
Rhonda Fleming	...	Roxana Reil
Mamie Van Doren	...	Lilith, Harem Slave
Lee J. Cobb	...	Sultan
Hal March	...	Hassan Sendar
Rex Reason	...	Omar Id-Din (as Bart Roberts)
Philip Van Zandt	...	Bassan Sa'id
Benny Rubin	...	Zamil
Tudor Owen	...	Elias Derby
Harry Lauter	...	Dick Bailey
Forbes Murray	...	Reil
Arthur Space	...	U.S. Consul Richard O'Brien
John Daheim	...	First Mate Miller (as John Day)
Christiane Martel	...	Harem girl (as Miss Universe France)
Myrna Hansen	...	Harem girl (as Miss United States)

Runtime:

84 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

West Germany:12 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #16777) | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Corriganville, Ray Corrigan Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA

Company:

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Rhonda and Mamie in harem outfits!

Watching so many of these 50s adventure movies, be they vehicles for cowboys or detectives, soldiers or swashbucklers, aliens or monsters, were like reading so much of the pulp fiction of the day. Rather than spending days reading a book, you could spend a couple of hours whisked away to a fantasy land with some harmless adventure and thrills if not a lot of thought provoking ideas. Forty some years later after growing older and wiser, there are still those times when I wonder where Hollywood's current head is, and head back to comfortable familiar territory. I started watching these kind of movies about the time I reached puberty and needless to say, watching this movie with raging hormones was a thrilling experience back then. Rhonda Fleming is still my favorite actress all these years later, and Mamie Van Doren was one of my favorite 50s blond bombshells, so how can I say anything bad about a Technicolor movie that puts both of these women in harem outfits? Yeow! I always thought Rhonda was at her peak in The Gunfight at the OK Corral, but to this day one of my treasured possessions is an autographed publicity still of her in her harem outfit. Move over Jeannie, you've got company! Forget the hokum plot and go for the ride and check out two of the greatest harem beauties ever.