Sinbad the Sailor

Sinbad the SailorThis swashbuckling costume film stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak , and Anthony Quinn. Surrounded by friends ,regales his audience with a tale of his daring in exotic lands. In this particular adventure, his ocean journey with sidekick Abbu pauses in remote Daibul , where nefarious auctioneers commandeer his ship. A bidding war erupts between rightful owner Sinbad and the feisty, resolved only through a bit of Sinbadian

To escape the censor's scissors

Director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) and writer Alan Sillitoe (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) give the film an edgy intensity specific to its era yet timeless in its outcry against injustice

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And Dorothy Sebastian (a costar in the first film) is bedazzled by a rogue's ready flash of $100 bills

Wild Bill Elliott was ironically known as the "peaceable man

I Married an Angel was the studio's choice for the soprano's first Metro film

while Judy triple moonlights outer space style to earn money for a new car

cloak-and-dagger fun and great movie in-jokes

lively direction by Robert Z

" plays Doc's gleefully malevolent kept criminal

Winner Take All places the actor square in the ring

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