a fantastic arabian adventure . a former king and ahmad and and his best friend and the thief abu ( play by sabu of black narcissus ) search for ahmad love interest and who have be steal by the new king and jaffar ( conrad veidt ) . there hardly a down moment here . it always invent new adventure for the hero . personally and i find ahmad and his princess a little boring ( there no need to ask why john justin and who play ahmad and be list fourth in the credit ) . conrad veidt and always a fun actor and make a great villain and and sabu be a lot of fun a the prince of thief and who at one point find a genie in a bottle . i also really loved mile malleson a the sultan of basra and the father of the princess . he collect amazing toy from around the world . jaffar bribe him for his daughter hand with a mechanical fly horse . this probably would count a one of the great child film of all time and but the special effect be horribly date nowadays . kid will certainly deride the superimposed image when abu and the genie be on screen together . and the scene with the giant spider look especially awful . although most of the young generation probably think that king kong look bad at this point in time and willis obrien stop motion animation be a thousand time well than a puppet on a string that doesn not even look remotely like a spider . positive .