Chu Chin Chow (3-DVD)
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Ali Baba Nights
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 21, 2005
- Originally Released: 1934
- Label: VCI Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anna May Wong, George Robey & Fritz Kortner | |
Directed by | Walter Forde |
Entertainment Reviews:
71%
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Total Count: 14
U.S. cinemaddicts may find the photography in Chu Chin Chow inferior to most recent Hollywood musicomedies... but are likely to approve the decor, [music, and Anna May Wong,] the only performer in the cast whose name is familiar to them.
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TIME Magazine
The producers of the film, having a more malleable medium to work with, had an opportunity to out-glitter the stage production, but they have not done so.
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Sydney Morning Herald
An over-elaborate and quite dull British spectacle.
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Vanity Fair
The picture is not as colorful as the legitimate stage version, but it provides entertainment of the type that is well worth while.
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The Age (Australia)
Rating: 3/5 --
George Robey's performance as Ali Baba is forever enshrined here, and there's some interesting period casting, with Anna May Wong as Zahrat the slave girl and villain Fritz Kortner as boss of the 40 thieves.
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Radio Times
This lavish musical from the British studios is a colorful, extravagant costume film that makes its bid for attention purely on an extravaganza platform, and makes the grade.
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Variety
Britain's long-heralded invasion of the American film market has begun with the offerings at the Roxy of Chu Chin Chow, a tuneful, spectacular and robust adaptation of the Oscar Asche comic operetta.
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New York Times
Product Description:
Exhumed from the vaults for all to see, this British musical, which tells the story of Ali Baba, hails from 1934. The film has suffered from some severe cuts in the editing room in the past, with British viewers enjoying a version that was over 20 minutes longer than the American theatrical release. Fortunately that has all been remedied here, with both version available for viewers to peruse. The original stage production enjoyed a magnificent run at His Majesty's Theatre, with a cast that included George Robey, Anna May Wong, and Fritz Kortner, all of whom feature here.
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- Sales Rank: 14,362
- UPC: 089859840227
- Shipping Weight: 0.49/lbs (approx)
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