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Ali Baba Goes to Town. All Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) wants when he stumbles onto the set of a movie about Ali Baba is an autograph. Instead, he winds up with a head injury. Wanting to...
- David Butler
- Musical, Comedy, Fantasy
- Eddie Cantor
ALI BABA GOES TO TOWN (1937) is an interesting historical curiosity for classic movie buffs. It stars famed entertainer Eddie Cantor in one of his rare movie roles.
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Aug 5, 2019 · When the evil Prince Musah (Douglass Dumbrille), plotting to overthrow the ruling sultan (Roland Young), stabs Al with his movie extra prop knife after accused by him of being a traitor and Al lives, the stranger is mistaken for the son of Ali Baba and treated as a hero by the Arab mob.
Ali Baba Goes to Town: Directed by David Butler. With Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, Roland Young, June Lang. A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan.
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- Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
- David Butler
- 1937-10-29
Ali Baba Goes to Town is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, and Roland Young. Cantor plays a hobo named Aloysius "Al" Babson, who walks into the camp of a movie company that is making the Arabian Nights.
Popular reviews. ★★★. The most 1937 film ever made: riding the rails, New Deal-themed satire, Hollywood autograph-hunting, novelty swing numbers, eye-watering racism, Gypsy Rose Lee in one of her four Fox films, and, in Cantor, a superstar of the period who has left almost no footprint.
