this be an oriental fantasy about ¨thousand and one arabian nights¨ plenty of incredible adventure and fantasy witchery and wizardly . the malignant vizier jaffar ( magnificently play by conrad veidt ) with powerful magic faculty imprison the prince ahamad of bagdad ( attractive john justin ) who lose his throne and then he escape thanks a little thief name abu ( sympathetic sabu ) . they arrive basora where ahamad and the princess ( gorgeous june duprez ) fall in love . but prince and thief be haunt by jaffar and ahamd be turn blind and abu be become a dog . the story accumulate several fantastic ingredient such a transformation of the starring and a fly mechanic horse and magic bow and fly carpet and of course the colossal genie ( overact perform by rex ingram ) who give three wish to sabu and the magic eye and the figure of goddess kali with several hand and among others . this remarkable picture rank a one of the fine fantastic film of all time . produce by london fim alexander korda and direct by the definitively credited ludwing berger and michael powell and tim whelan with a stunning screenplay by lajos biro and mile malleson also dialogs writer and actor a sultan fond to mechanic game . the wwii outbreak cause the paralyzing shooting and then the three korda brother and collaborator travel usa continue there the filming in especial on grand cannon colorado . the splendid visual and glimmer technicolor cinematography and setting and fx provoke the achieve three oscar represent production design by william cameron menzies and vincent korda and cinematography by george perinal and special effect by osmond borradaile though today be date and be urgent a necessary remastering because the color be wear out . furthermore one nomination for the evocative and oriental musical score by miklos rozsa . this vivid tale with immense dos of imagination will like to fantasy fan and cinema classic buff .