like the arabian night this film play with storytelling convention in order to make u feel that there plot and plot and more plot represent it open with what appear to be the frame device of a blind man tell the story of his life and then plunge into a flashback which take u right up to the blind man present and where we discover that about half of the story be yet to come . ( it must be admit that the second half doesn not quite live up to the promise of the first . ) like the arabian night it try to cram a many middle eastern folk motiffs a possible into the one work . a freed genie and a beautiful princess and a fly carpet and fantastic mechanical toy and sea voyage and a crowded marketplace and a wicked vizier and jewel . i do not know why it all work and but it do . everything be just so beautiful . the set be beautiful . june duprez be beautiful . rozsa score be especially beautiful . a usual and it sound hungarian while but somehow he manage to convince u that he be hungarian in a persian way .