Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

(1954)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 147 votes

Genres: Adventure, Comedy

Year: 1954

Runtime: 92 мин

Country: France

Director: Jacques Becker

Cast: Фернандель, Samia Gamal, Dieter Borsche, Henri Vilbert, Эдуард Дельмон, Edmond Ardisson, José Casa, Manuel Gary, Julien Maffre, Léopoldo Francès

Plot

A lord’s servant, Ali Baba, is sent to retrieve a slave for his master, but ends up on an adventure filled with gold, mischief, love, and forty famous thieves instead.

Rich oriental lord Cassim's cheeky servant Ali Baba was sent to buy a meaty girl-slave, but brings dancer Morgiane, whom he is enamored with. When he's part of a caravan robbed by Abdel's 40 thieves, Ali hides in a camel hive and thus learns the secret of Sesame cave. With stolen loot he buys Morgiane and his own residence for him and beggar friends. Cassim not only gets him drunk to learn his secret gold source but also plans to rob him at the grand wedding with Morgiane. But Abdel observed them too and invites his 40 robbers.