the siren of baghdad

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January 9 movie: The Siren of Baghdad. This was an extremely silly movie starring Paul Henreid as an Arabian magician who has to rescue a princess from the evil sultan and eviller grand vizier. It reminded me a lot of the Cornel Wilde Thousand and One Nights. They both had the silly humor and in-jokes (for instance in this one, Henreid likes two pipes on a hookah, Now Voyager style). Austrian Paul Henreid is ridiculous as a Middle Easterner, but no more ridiculous than Phil Silvers.

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