The Brass Bottle

Jul 22, 1923

1h 0m

★ 0.0

Come back 7,000 years to Haremland with a jazz-genie as guide and a young American as victim of a thousand delights and adventures.

Overview

Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up a genie suddenly appears and promises Horace that he will grant every wish Horace wants in exchange for his freedom. Horace accepts the genie's offer but finds out that things aren't working out quite as well as he thought they would.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Maurice Tourneur Productions

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Cast

Horace Ventimore

Harry Myers

Fakresh-el-Aamash

Ernest Torrence

Professor Hamilton

Tully Marshall

Mrs. Hamilton (as Clarissa Selwyn)

Clarissa Selwynne

Rapkin

Ford Sterling

Mrs. Rapkin

Aggie Herring

Sylvia Hamilton

Charlotte Merriam

Samuel Wackerbath

Edward Jobson

The Queen

Barbara La Marr

Captain of the Guard

Otis Harlan

Hazel Keener

Julanne Johnston

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