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Les Aventures de Hadji

Original title: The Adventures of Hajji Baba
  • 1954
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
698
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John Derek and Elaine Stewart in Les Aventures de Hadji (1954)
Sword & SandalActionAdventureRomance

In Ispahan, Persia, a barber mistakes an emerald ring as the prize to be delivered to a prince known far and wide, only to realize that a runaway Princess is the real treasure awaited, promi... Read allIn Ispahan, Persia, a barber mistakes an emerald ring as the prize to be delivered to a prince known far and wide, only to realize that a runaway Princess is the real treasure awaited, promising to escort her to her final destination.In Ispahan, Persia, a barber mistakes an emerald ring as the prize to be delivered to a prince known far and wide, only to realize that a runaway Princess is the real treasure awaited, promising to escort her to her final destination.

  • Director
    • Don Weis
  • Writers
    • Richard Collins
    • James Justinian Morier
  • Stars
    • John Derek
    • Elaine Stewart
    • Thomas Gomez
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    698
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Don Weis
    • Writers
      • Richard Collins
      • James Justinian Morier
    • Stars
      • John Derek
      • Elaine Stewart
      • Thomas Gomez
    • 23User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
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    John Derek
    John Derek
    • Hajji Baba
    Elaine Stewart
    Elaine Stewart
    • Princess Fakzia
    Thomas Gomez
    Thomas Gomez
    • Osman Aga
    Amanda Blake
    Amanda Blake
    • Banah
    Rosemarie Stack
    Rosemarie Stack
    • Ayesha
    • (as Rosemarie Bowe)
    Paul Picerni
    Paul Picerni
    • Nurel-Din
    Donald Randolph
    Donald Randolph
    • Caliph
    Claude Akins
    Claude Akins
    • Chief Executioner's Aide
    • (uncredited)
    Kenneth Alton
    • Messenger
    • (uncredited)
    Bert Arnold
    • Guard
    • (uncredited)
    Benjie Bancroft
    • Guard
    • (uncredited)
    Doris Barton
    • Slave Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Mary Ellen Batten
    • Arabian Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Paul Baxley
    • Escort Warrior
    • (uncredited)
    Robert Bice
    Robert Bice
    • Musa
    • (uncredited)
    Anna Lee Carroll
    Anna Lee Carroll
    • Slave Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Booth Colman
    Booth Colman
    • Akim
    • (uncredited)
    Jean Corbett
    • Woman
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Don Weis
    • Writers
      • Richard Collins
      • James Justinian Morier
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    User reviews23

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    searchanddestroy-1

    A cult movie, where John Derek nearly matches Jon Hall.

    At least, in France, this adventure film from One Thousand and One Nights tales was very famous, and I understand why after watching it. Full of charm because of the photograpjy, production design, music score and above all Nat King Cole's song. No matter the story, the plot, focus only on the overall film, not details. The best material from director Don Weis, forget the rest. Anyway this director was especially a TV director, more than a big screen film maker. Even if his real influence was not important for this film, it is still a good adventure film and it is very important to consider it in terms of other movies of this kind, as good - but different though - as the Universal ones from the forties and fifties, starring Maria Montez and Jon Hall or Yvonne De Carlo or Maureen O'Hara.
    childoasis

    Comment on John Derek after watching Adventures of Hajji Baba

    John Derek was ahead of his time in the movement to uplift the status of women. This movie is really about women claiming their power and not being relegated to a status unequal with men. In his own life, he was so appreciative of the feminine ideal and he served the women he loved quite devotedly. I believe that he was more invested in life than in movies. I believe that he was as handsome as any of the great swashbucklers, and as good a performer. It is such a grace that he played Joshua in the Ten Commandments. Joshua is a true hero of the Bible - of the Hebrew and Christian traditions, both. He was an artist of high integrity and profound passion. This movie shows him in one of his best moments, career-wise, and in our insatiable appetite for entertainment, let us not overlook his travail in this life.
    TroyAir

    A take-off of Ali Baba

    A classic "B" movie from the 50's, this film features numerous women dressed up like a Vargas painting. I don't remember much about the movie other than a slave girl gets tied down to a table and the soles of her feet are lightly cropped, that Haji encounters a band of Amazon-style women warriors, and that Elaine Stewart's character is captured and bound to a frame until Haji comes to her rescue. No nudity, no harsh language, nothing offensive, just the usual damsels in distress. Since the film was made in the fifties, you can bet that those scanty costumes are sewn onto flesh-colored bodysuits. Still, the slave girl cropping is a bit risque for the time and may be worth seeing.
    7imauter

    `Isn't it nice to face life together, being in love always in love.'

    The Adventures of Hajji Baba is remotely based on the book by a British writer James Morier who was actually raised in a harem and later served as an English diplomat at the court of the sultan of Iran in the first part of the 19th century. The book called The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan enjoyed quite a success at the time of its release in 1824 not only in England but also in Iran, the fact that encouraged the author to write a sequel called The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England where our hero is sent to learn its customs and way of life. This film version hasn't borrowed much from the book except perhaps the name of the main character – Hajji Baba (played by John Derek) and his profession – the barber whose banal, but sweet story we follow as he runs of with a beautiful but very capricious princess Fawzia (Elaine Stewart) who tries to escape from marriage to a man she isn't really crazy about which is imposed by her authoritative father Khalif (Donald Randolph) who is not particularly inclined to consider his daughter's opinion regarding choosing her lifetime partner especially when his power and monetary interests are at stake. But the main Hajji Baba's interest in helping the fugitive princess lies not in her attractive physical appearances but in a ring with a priceless emerald in it, which she happens to possess and which Hajji happens to covet. But gradually a struggle ensues inside of our hero's heart as about the change in the flow of his preferences to the girl instead of the emerald, which are also fed by the attraction the princess feels each time stronger towards the irresistible barber.

    While all this internal fight is going on, our heroes come through numerous adventures most excitingly dangerous of them being caught by a band of beautiful women-outlaws several of whom were once Fawzia's personal servants who managed to escape mainly from princess' ill temper and promptly turned into bandits.

    Overall Adventures of Hajji Baba is an ultimate what can be called sex and sand adventure comedy with a lot of beautiful women and sand in it all filmed in larger than life Cinemascope, which somehow covers the films poor story and is significantly helped by a pleasant title song performed by Nat King Cole which can be heard several times throughout the film - `Hajji, Hajji, Hajji, Hajji, Hajji Baba, Hajji Baba.' 7/10
    6ma-cortes

    Joyous and attractive Oriental adventure with romance , pursuits , entertainment and amusement

    More fabulous than the tales of the Arabian Nights .. more exciting than the travels of Marco Polo .. more spectacular than the splendors of Kubla Khan ! It deals with a rogue young called Haji . Who's Hajji ¿ Hajii ; John Derek was the most romantic barber and masseur who ever lived , the joy-boy of every harem from Ispahan to Istanbul . Along the way Hajji falls in love for a gorgeous princess : Elaine Stewart and both of them are captured by a tribe of brave Amazon women commanded by a tough leader : Amanda Blake .

    Orient adventure movie with thrills , emotion , fights , dazzling spectacle of swordplay, and colorful scenarios . Although the story has been told earlier , tight filmmaking and sympathetic performances win out . Stars John Derek who gives a likable acting as the stalwart hero attempting to save a princess . Derek was an actor and director of considerable success , however, being most known for his marriages to famous stars as Linda Evans , Ursula Andress and Bo Derek . His partenaire is the beauty Elaine Stewart , a young actress who had limited hits . Being accompanied by a good cast such as Thomas Gómez, Paul Picerni, Claude Akins, Laurette Luez , Rosemarie Stack who married actor Robert Stack and Amanda Blake of "Gunsmoke" series .

    Here outstanding the brilliant and glimmer cinematography in Universal Studios style by Harold Lipstein, photographed with the revolutionary new anamorphic lens in Cinemascope, Color by De Luxe . And hear Nat King Cole sing the nation's newest son hit "Hajji Baba" , along with the evocative soundtrack by the classic composer Dimitri Tiomkin . The motion picture produced by Walter Wanger in medium budget was professionally directed by Don Weiss. This filmmaker was a fine craftsman usually working for television , shooting episodes of known series as Bareta , Mannix, The Virginian, Batman , Kolchak, Planet of Apes , Wide Country , Twilight Zone Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Checkmate, Aquanauts , The Detectives, The Thin Man, Wagon Train, Burke's Law, Perry Mason, Ironside , Hawaii 5.0 , The Immortal, Rodeo and several others . And occasionally for the big screen as Gene Krupa story , Billie , Pajana Party , Half a Hero, A Slight case of Larceny, The Ghost and the invisible bikini and this Adventures of Hajii Baba . Rating : 6/10 , attractive and decent oriental aventure but no extraordinary .

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    • Trivia
      Paul Picerni said that Elaine Stewart was married to a little ugly man. He said that the seemed very close to her husband because she never joined the rest of the crew between takes or after working hours.
    • Quotes

      [first lines]

      [eyeing a bevy of beautiful slave girls]

      Merchant: When is the auction?

      Auctioneer: These girls will be sold in Masharif. They go today in Osman Aga's caravan.

    • Alternate versions
      The UK theatrical version, rated 'A', appears to have been heavily cut, with only a 79 minute running time.
    • Connections
      Edited into À la recherche de Kundun avec Martin Scorsese (1998)
    • Soundtracks
      Hajji Baba (Persian Lament)
      Sung by Nat 'King' Cole

      a Capitol recording artist

      Music by Dimitri Tiomkin

      Lyrics by Ned Washington

      Orchestral Arrangement by Nelson Riddle

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    • Release date
      • July 31, 1957 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Albanian
    • Also known as
      • Amazones
    • Filming locations
      • Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Walter Wanger Productions
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    • Budget
      • $816,813 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 34m(94 min)
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.55 : 1

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