Prince Ali Bey maintains a harem of seven women. He loses at gambling and, unable to pay the debt, offers all these ladies as collateral to Guy de Kerentrec. At the instigation of his aunt, Guy was going to marry Sabine; she manages to get into the harem and make Guy love her.
The male lead ,Jacques Pills,was primarily a singer ,mainly known as one of Edith Piaf's husbands.
So the movie is essentially a musical and the songs are boring ,with the exception of "comme de bien entendu ", but one can prefere the earlier version performed by Arletty, Michel Simon and others in "circonstances atténuantes "(1939); the lyrics were changed and not for the best .
As for the movie,it's one of Boyer's most heavy-handed comedies ;the screenwriters desperately try to give a "thousand and one " touch to a poor tale by using the pages of a book imitating the arabic style: but the women of the harem are played by French actresses, and it's really hopeless .
