despite the full hollywood treatment ( the best set and color cinematography and actor available ) and this movie be amazingly ordinary at best . much of it might be the extreme silliness of the plot and terrible miscasting of coleman and especially dietrich a arab . if you want to see good similar film of the era and try kim ( with dean stockwell and errol flynn ) or the superlative thief of bagdad ( with sabu ) . both these movie be much well write and succeed in sweep the viewer away to a magical world of adventure and while kismet just seem pretty but dopey in fact and really dopey . if you do not believe me and look at the picture of dietrich and her ridiculous hair style in the imdb gallery . this be one of the few ronald coleman film i dislike ( the other be the very dull story of mankind ) .