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Overview

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4.5/10   515 votes
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Director:
Gene Nelson
Writer:
Gerald Drayson Adams (written by)
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Release Date:
24 November 1965 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime | Musical more
Tagline:
THE GOLDEN AGE OF ROMANCE AND SONG! more
Plot:
American singer Johnny Tyrone is enlisted by sinister forces to assassinate an Arab king whose daughter he has fallen in love with. full summary | add synopsis
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NewsDesk:
Ten Reasons Why Elvis Presley is Overrated
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Maybe Elvis needed Bob Hope more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Elvis Presley ... Johnny Tyronne

Mary Ann Mobley ... Princess Shalimar
Fran Jeffries ... Aishah
Michael Ansara ... Prince Dragna
Jay Novello ... Zacha
Phillip Reed ... King Toranshah (as Philip Reed)
Theodore Marcuse ... Sinan (as Theo Marcuse)

Billy Barty ... Baba
Dirk Harvey ... Makar
Jack Costanzo ... Julna
Larry Chance ... Capt. Herat
Barbara Werle ... Leilah
Brenda Benet ... Emerald
Gail Gilmore ... Sapphire
Wilda Taylor ... Amethyst
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Harem Holiday
Harem Scarum (USA) (working title)
In My Harem (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Australia:G | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:11 | USA:Approved (PCA #20983)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Elvis Presley believed that this film would be more dramatic than his usual films, so he was very disappointed with the script. more
Goofs:
Continuity: In the climactic fight scene (set at night), the lighting shifts back and forth several times between torchlit darkness and broad daylight. more
Quotes:
Johnny Tyronne: [after learning that the King will not execute his brother] Be a nice King and don't exile him to the U.S.A. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Golden Girls: Sophia's Wedding: Part 1 (#4.6)" (1988) more
Soundtrack:
HEY LITTLE GIRL more

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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Maybe Elvis needed Bob Hope, 22 August 2005
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Colonel Tom Parker who usually took great care in the movie properties acquired for Elvis Presley must have cringed with the lemon he got Elvis stuck in here. IMDb says that Colonel Tom thought that Harum Scarum might have needed a talking camel so that there would be no question this was a comedy. Obviously the Colonel had the Road to Morocco in mind. But I'll go one better. Elvis the singer may have needed a comedian along with him, like Bob Hope.

Back when the Road to Morocco was made it was satirizing those sword and sandal desert epics that were popular back in the day. Usually those were about some mythical kingdom. We don't have mythical kingdoms any more, they're not in vogue in Hollywood. Poor Elvis was stuck in genre that was way out of date.

Also I don't think anyone had any doubt that when they went to see the Road to Morocco they were seeing a comedy. The gags here just fall flat. Now I doubt Elvis could have gotten Bob Hope, but a comedian of Elvis's generation to co-star might have brought off the comedy, but only might have.

Elvis is in good voice, but none of the songs from here are especially memorable. Certainly not like Jailhouse Rock or Blue Hawaii.

Harum Scarum belongs at the bottom of Elvis's movie credits. Only devoted fans of the King will like this and maybe not even them.

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