Alibaba

Based on the Arabian Nights this film tells of the Baghdadi woodcutter Alibaba M Bose and his magic Open Sesame formula of the heros jealous brother Kasim and the slave girl Marjina S Bose The film adapts the 1897 play giving it a Hollywoodderived exotic flavour An improvised modern dance is inserted The slow mannered acting with the frontally framed tableau shots are enlivened by the dance scenes especially the MarjinaAbdallah sequence