![]() As Haroun visits his brother, for whom he feels pity, Kamar's men storm the palace and free their leader outnumbered, Haroun is forced to flee. In his infatuation with her, and because of a prophecy which names her as the future queen, Kamar had attempted to seize the throne, but was captured and sentenced to slow death by exposure. Sherazade, a dancer in a wandering circus owned by Ahmad ( Billy Gilbert) - whose troupe also includes Sinbad the Sailor and Aladdin, who have seemingly fallen on hard times -, had captured the attention of Kamar (Erickson), the brother of caliph Haroun al-Rashid. The story starts at a harem in Persia, where the elderly overseer bids his young charges to read the story of Haroun al-Rashid (Hall) and his wife Sherazade (Montez), unfolding the film's plot in the process. This is the first film that Universal made using the three-strip Technicolor film process, although producer Walter Wanger had worked on two earlier Technicolor films for other studios: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine at Paramount and Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 for United Artists. ![]() Others include Cobra Woman, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and White Savage. The film is one of series of "exotic" tales released by Universal Pictures during World War II. ![]()
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