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Arabian Adventure

EMI Films

United Kingdom

English

Christopher Lee

Milo O’Shea

Oliver Tobias

Emma Samms

Puneet Sira

John Wyman

John Ratzenberger

Shane Rimmer

Hal Galili

Elisabeth Welch

Suzanne Danielle

Art Malik

Jacob Witkin

Milton Reid

Cengiz Saner

Marcel Steiner

William Sleigh

Andy Bradford

Albin Pahernik

Stuart Fell

Gurdial Sira

Dan Long

Tim Pearce

Benjamin Feitelson

Omelia Warland

Michael Watkins

David Freedman

Colin Howells

Bobby Parr

Alf Mangan

Eddie Tagoe

Sonny Caldinez

Robert La'Bassiere

Clive Curtis

Danna Amici

Roy Stewart

Peter Cushing

Capucine

Mickey Rooney

Brian Hayles

Kevin Connor

Ken Thorne

Yvonne Coppard

Robin Grantham

Jack Maxsted

Richard Conway

Barry Peters

Alan Hume

John Dark

Allan Foenander

Elliot Scott

The Rose Of Arabia.

Arabian Adventure is directed by Kevin Connor and written by Brian Hayles. It stars Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Oliver Tobias, Emma Samms and Puneet Sira. Music is by Ken Thorne and cinematography by Alan Hume.

A prince is sent by an evil sorcerer (Lee) on a quest for a magical rose. Should he succeed, he hopes that as a reward he will win the hand of the princess.

Sometimes to moderately enjoy a film of this type, you just got to take yourself back to a time when simple children's adventure movies were made with simple film making techniques. This obviously doesn't hold up well these days, where even given the year it was made it was way behind advancements that were being made in special effects. Thus it's highly unlikely that the prepubescents of today would have the patience or care for such a production. Yet it doesn't lack for charm.

Is charm enough? Well it's not a great or very good film, it's heavy on chatter, the effects are indeed a little crude, acting and accents are borderline dire, and it seems to take an age to get going, yet it's not insulting like many far bigger budget pictures have been: even nowadays! It's best just to roll with it, enjoy the whimsy and the many small roles by the likes of Peter Cushing, Mickey Rooney, Capucine and, erm, John Ratzenberger. 

Forgettable once it's over, but harmless with it. 5/10

CinemaSerf

This last film of the Kevin Connor/John Dark series of fantasy adventures, which I recall fondly from my childhood, sees Christopher Lee as "Alquazar", an evil sorcerer who manages to trick the lovestruck Oliver Tobias ("Prince Hasan") into setting off on a perilous journey for the all-powerful "Rose of Elil" which will earn him the hand of the beautiful Emma Sands ("Princess Zuilera"). Along the way he has a many adventures on his magic carpet; picks up the obligatory street-rat "Majeed" (Puneet Sira) and encounters magic and evil as he tries to fulfil his quest. It's a traditional Arabian Nights type story with sumptuous costumes and sets, and Lee is great as the baddie. A marvellously obsequious Milo O'Shea, Peter Cushing, Capucine and an all-too-brief series of scenes with Mickey Rooney make this more of an adventure story than a romantic one; and I quite enjoyed it.

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