Chu Chin Chow

May 1, 1934

1h 43m

★ 4.3

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Overview

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.

Genres

Music

Fantasy

Romance

Production Companies

Gainsborough Pictures

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Cast

Zahrat

Anna May Wong

Ali Baba

George Robey

Abu Hasan

Fritz Kortner

Nur-al-din Baba

John Garrick

Marjanah, servant girl

Pearl Argyle

Abdullah, Kassim's major-domo

Malcolm 'Mr. Jetsam' McEachern

Rakham, chief henchman

Dennis Hoey

Mahbubah Baba, Ali's wife

Sydney Fairbrother

Kasim Baba

Laurence Hanray

Mustafa

Frank Cochrane

Alcolom Baba, Kassim's wife

Thelma Tuson

The Caliph

Francis L. Sullivan

In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.

5.0

I Dream Too Much

Nov 29, 1935

Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonathan lashes out at Annette's success. Despite her husband's jealousy, Annette embarks on a successful career that allows her to secretly fund Jonathan's opera, bringing their marriage to a crisis.

7.1

Aladdin

May 22, 2019

A kindhearted street urchin named Aladdin embarks on a magical adventure after finding a lamp that releases a wisecracking genie while a power-hungry Grand Vizier vies for the same lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.

6.1

La Cucaracha

Aug 31, 1934

Señor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local café in Mexico because of its reputation for good food and to audition the famous dancer who performs there. Martinez tells the café owner that if the dancer is as good as he has heard, he will offer the dancer a contract to perform in his theater. The café's female singer hears about this and is determined that he won't leave the café without her.

6.5

Maclovia

Sep 30, 1948

On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.

5.5

Dancing Pirate

May 22, 1936

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.

5.7

Baiju Bawra

Oct 5, 1952

During the reign of Akbar the Great, a young singer sets out to avenge his father's death and challenges the killer to a musical duel.

5.0

Torna a Sorrento

Nov 7, 1945

No overview available.

6.0

The White-Haired Girl

Mar 1, 1951

Yang Bailao, a tenant farmer, lives with his daughter Xi'er. The despotic landlord, Huang Shiren, attempts to forcibly take Xi'er for himself. On the eve of the Chinese Spring Festival, Huang forces Yang to sell his daughter as repayment of the debt Yang owes him.

6.4

Lily Boy

Feb 24, 1955

Set in the "Golden Era" of the wandering Hungarian theatre troupes. Mariska and Liliomfi fall in love without suspecting that Mariska's foster father, Professor Szilvay, is also Liliomfi's uncle. Soon the couple must contend with the professor's plan to make Liliomfi give up his "unrespectable" profession of acting by exposing the professor's hypocrisy, greed, and tyrannical selfishness.

6.0

Let Freedom Ring

Feb 24, 1939

A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

7.0

The Blazing Sun

Mar 1, 1954

A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.

6.3

Perfidy

Mar 3, 1953

A story about a young man tempted to kill his rival for a girl, only to find out that he may be his illegitimate son. The story is set in XIX century Dubrovnik.

6.0

The Call of the Sea

Oct 12, 1927

The son of a miller, following his call, flees to the sea, but after several years he returns to his family and to his childhood romance, Hanka.

5.5

Cover Up

Aug 24, 1983

A well-known business lawyer is shot dead in the courthouse. A commissioner of the Criminal Brigade is in charge of the investigation and is helped by a journalist.

7.5

Whom the Gods Love

Dec 5, 1942

Biographical film about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

0.0

Peter

Dec 19, 1934

Starring Francisca Gaál in a breeches role. Dressed as a boy, a street musician gets a job pumping gas. When s/he starts to have feelings for her patron, watch out for complications in this comedy shot in German in Budapest.

6.6

Seventh Heaven

Mar 25, 1937

A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.

5.8

Let George Do It!

Jul 12, 1940

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.

0.0

New Arabian Nights

Jan 1, 1947

Showing off his love of visual aesthetics as a painter, director Dan Duyu combines elegance, exoticism and oddity into a grand big-budget package with New Arabian Nights. Dan's vision is definitely not bound by the source material, but his magical and music-filled version of the orient turns out to be not so different from how Western storytellers would imagine it.