A movie company is filming the "Arabian Nights" when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal, he organizes work programs, taxes the rich and abolishes the army.
Should you watch Ali Baba Goes to Town today? If you have a soft spot for 1930s musicals that aren't afraid to get weirdly political, then yes. If you are allergic to old-timey vaudeville humor or people singing about tax codes, you will probably hate every second of this. Eddie Cantor is essentially playing himself, w...
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"Should you watch Ali Baba Goes to Town today? If you have a soft spot for 1930s musicals that aren't afraid to get weirdly political, then yes. If you are allergic to old-timey vaudeville humor or people singing about tax codes, you will probably hate every second of this. Eddie Cantor is essentially playing himself, which is to say he is playing a man who cannot sit still. He spends the first half of the movie looking like he is vibrating out of his own suit. When he finally gets to the dream s..."
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C. Graham Baker, Harry Tugend, Gene Fowler, Jack Yellen, Gene Towne
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Fantasy, Comedy, Musical
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