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Noëlle Adam | ... |
Djalma
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Genie
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Aldo Fabrizi | ... |
Sultan
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Michèle Mercier | ... |
Princess Zaina
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Milton Reid | ... |
Omar
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Prince Moluk
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Fausto Tozzi | ... |
Grand Vizier
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Luigi Tosi |
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Marco Tulli | ... |
Fakir
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Raymond Bussières | ... |
Magician
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Alberto Farnese | ... |
Bandit Chieftain
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Franco Ressel | ... |
Vizier's Lieutenant
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Vittorio Bonos | ... |
Lamp Merchant
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Adriana Facchetti | ... |
Aladdin's Mother Benhai
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A poor young man finds a magic lamp that possesses a genie, who will grant the boy three wishes if he sets him free from the lamp.
I had the remarkable experience of seeing this in a theatre. A local dollar movie got a copy of it about the time Disney's Aladdin came out and sh0wed it for matinees one weekend. Strangely, they didn't also get the LENS they needed for the widescreen presentation so it was all crunched horizontally and everybody was half as wide or twice as tall as normal. Add that to the fact that the movie itself is kind of dopey and absurd, with lots of good actors wasting their efforts, and the INSANE use of Vittorio De Sica playing the genie as a guy standing around in a choir robe, in footage shot elsewhere probably in about half an hour, and just matted into a cloud in the corner of the screen, and I'd classify this as one of the most frightening Mario Bava movie I've ever seen.