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The Desert Hawk

"A slave in the Palace of 1000 Delights !"

A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.

Top Cast

  • Yvonne De Carlo

    Yvonne De Carlo

    Princess Scheherazade

  • Richard Greene

    Richard Greene

    Omar

  • Jackie Gleason

    Jackie Gleason

    Aladdin

  • George Macready

    George Macready

    Prince Murad

  • Rock Hudson

    Rock Hudson

    Captain Ras

  • Carl Esmond

    Carl Esmond

    Kibar

  • Joe Besser

    Joe Besser

    Prince Sinbad

  • Anne P. Kramer

    Anne P. Kramer

    Yasmin

  • Marc Lawrence

    Marc Lawrence

    Samad

Overview

A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.

Rating

5.4 / 10
8 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    5 Dec 27, 2022

    A remarkably decent cast fail to enliven this rather verbose and dull Arabian Nights adventure based around the legendary character of "Scheherazade". This time she (Yvonne de Carlo) is the daughter of the Caliph who is tricked into marrying "Omar" (Richard Greene) in the belief that he is the Prince "Murad" (George Macready). Nobody is very impressed by this arrangement, the Princess demands the head of "Omar" and off we go on some colourful desert shenanigans during which the Princess realises that she might just have backed the wrong horse! Sadly, though, it is all just descends quickly into a routine sand and scimitar story as the men vie for her affections whilst pursuing wealth and power at the same time. It looks quite good, but the dialogue is pretty stilted and even with Jackie Gleason and a bit-part from Rock Hudson, it never really flows - indeed, much of the time it is just too meandering and lacklustre. Pity, though - better writing and direction could have made more of it.

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