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The Adventures of Hajji Baba is a 1954 American CinemaScope adventure film directed by Don Weis and starring John Derek and Elaine Stewart. Made in Southern California, it was released on October 1, 1954. In the credits it states that the film is suggested by The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Justinian Morier (3 vols., London, 1824).
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- Walter Wanger
With John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Amanda Blake, Rosemarie Stack. In Ispahan, Persia, a barber mistakes an emerald ring as the prize to be delivered to a prince known far and wide, only to realize that a runaway Princess is the real treasure awaited, promising to escort her to her final destination.
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- Don Weis
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- Action, Adventure, Romance
In ancient Persia, barber Hajji Baba tires of his sedentary life and decides to leave his home town of Ispahan to seek adventure and fortune. Merchant Osman Aga bets another trader that the handsome Hajji will become a success within six months, while in the palace, Princess Fawzia greets her father, the caliph of Ispahan.
- Don Weis, Edward Morey Jr., Edward Rubin
- John Derek
The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Rent The Adventures of Hajji Baba on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. A clever Persian barber (John Derek) wows the harem and wins a princess (Elaine Stewart) by saving her from an...
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- Don Weis
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The Adventures of Hajji Baba is remotely based on the book by a British writer James Morier who was actually raised in a harem and later served as an English diplomat at the court of the sultan of Iran in the first part of the 19th century.
Novel. Richard Collins. Writer. In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din, a rival prince known far and wide as mean and fickle.
