Prisoners of the Casbah - 1953 (Gloria Grahame, Cesar Romero)

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Prisoners of the Casbah (1953 - USA)

Adventure

starring . . . Gloria Grahame, Cesar Romero, Turhan Bey

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046209/

There are countless Technicolor gems amongst the forgotten Hollywood studio pictures of the 1950s. Prisoners of the Casbah is one of them, produced by Sam Katzman during his time with Columbia. Prisoners is one of those gorgeous Arabic epics, full of vibrant colours, sword fights, and pretty harem girls. There's always a scheming vizier (Cesar Romero), of course. One wonders why Sultans and Emirs bothered appointing viziers, since they always turn out to be evil. There's a twist with Prisoners: the lovely Princess Nadja (Gloria Grahame) is a spoiled brat and she's totally infatuated with the vizier Firouz rather than our brazen hero, Ahmed, the Captain of the Guards (Tuhran Bey). While the Emir would like Ahmed to marry his daughter and take the throne, the Captain despises the loathsome woman as much as she despises the playboy Captain. These twists on the format are refreshing and open the representation of genders and the various other format stereotypes to scrutiny.

Video: XviD, 640x480, 23.976 fps, 2482 Kbps, 01h17m52s
Audio: Dolby AC3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 192 kbps

TVRip with continuous corner station logo, English audio, no subtitles