Arabian Adventure (1979)

Director:

Kevin Connor

Writer:

Brian Hayles (screenplay)

Release Date:

5 July 1979 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Fantasy | Adventure

Plot:

An evil magician seeks to gain power by obtaining a magic rose. A peasant boy and a prince join forces to stop him. |

Plot Keywords:

Arabia | Beggar | Palace | Monkey | Evil Magician

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Christopher Lee	...	Alquazar
Milo O'Shea	...	Khasim
Oliver Tobias	...	Prince Hasan
Emma Samms	...	Princess Zuleira
Puneet Sira	...	Majeed
Peter Cushing	...	Wazir Al Wuzara
Capucine	...	Vahishta
Mickey Rooney	...	Daad El Shur
John Wyman	...	Bahloul
John Ratzenberger	...	Achmed
Shane Rimmer	...	Abu
Hal Galili	...	Asaf
Elisabeth Welch	...	Beggarwoman
Suzanne Danielle	...	Eastern Dancer
Art Malik	...	Mamhoud (as Athar Malik)

Also Known As:

1001 peripeteies stin aravia (Greece) [el]
Alfombras mágicas (Spain) [es]
Avventura araba (Italy) [it]
Ekdikitis me to iptameno hali, O (Greece) (reissue title) [el]
Im Banne des Kalifen (West Germany) [de]
Prinssi Hassanin seikkailut (Finland) [fi]
Przygoda arabska (Poland) [pl]
Tapete Voador, O (Portugal) [pt]
Trésor de la montagne sacrée, Le (France) [fr]

Runtime:

UK:98 min | USA:98 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Netherlands:12 | Australia:G | Finland:K-12 | Iceland:L | UK:U | USA:G

Filming Locations:

Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Badger Films

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Intimate Portrait: Emma Samms" (2002)

what a pile of Pooh

this film is pathetic the acting (if you could call it that is cardboard and predictable) the plot again is predictable and so clichéd (with no real attempt to even disguise the cliché). I didn't know that thieves had cockney accents in 'arabia'. what makes it even worst is that all the actors are supposed to be Arab but just have lots of fake tan on. it looks like everything from every fantasy and storybook has been thrown into a bag and pulled out in some random order. the story doesn't seem to focus on one magic thing to the next this is too dull a film to mention in fact i couldn't get through the whole thing without giving up and deciding that this is a wholesale waste of my time. i was very surprised to see that this film had been made in 1979. i mean, star wars had been made by then, Indiana Jones wasn't far off. jaws had been made and yet the effects in this film are pathetic. i could not justify giving this film any more than a one as a rating.