1001 Arabian Nights

Plot

1001 Arabian Nights was the first animated feature film produced by the "progressive" UPA cartoon firm. The studio had originally planned to feature its star attraction, the nearsighted Mr. Magoo, in an adaptation of Don Quixote scripted by no less than Aldous Huxley. But Columbia, UPA's distributor, didn't think that a Quixote film would sell to the kiddie trade, so the studio settled on the oft-used "Aladdin's Lamp" story. It might have worked better had Magoo portrayed a bumbling genie; instead, the Myopic One is cast as Aladdin's uncle, a wholly extraneous character who has no bearing on the plot or its outcome. Beyond its script shortcomings, 1001 Arabian Nights boasts an attractive production design and color scheme, as well as some pleasant voicework by Dwayne Hickman, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Hans Conried and Herschel Bernardi. Many of the character designs seen in Arabian Nights were reused on UPA's weekly 1964 TV series The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

• Jim Backus - Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo
• Kathryn Grant - Princess Yasminda
• Dwayne Hickman - Aladdin
• Hans Conried - The Wicked Wazir
• Herschel Bernardi - The Jinni

Alan Reed, Sr. - The Sultan; Daws Butler - Omar the Rug Maker

Credit

Jack Campbell - Animator, Bob Carlson - Animator, Herman Cohen - Animator, Philip Duncan - Animator, Ed Friedman - Animator, Abe Levitow - Animator, Hank Smith - Animator, Harvey Toombs - Animator, Rudy Zamora - Animator, Clarke Mallery - Animator, Ken Hultgren - Animator, Casey Onaitis - Animator, Sanford Strother - Animator, Stan Wilkins - Animator, Jim Davis - Animator, Jack Kinney - Director, Earl Bennett - Editor, Joe Siracusa - Editor, Skip Craig - Editor, George Duning - Composer (Music Score), Morris W. Stoloff - Musical Direction/Supervision, George Duning - Songwriter, Ned Washington - Songwriter, Robert Dranko - Production Designer, Jack Eckes - Cinematographer, Stephen Bosustow - Producer, Pete Burness - Screen Story, Leo Salkin - Screen Story, Dick Kinney - Screen Story, Paul Schneider - Screenwriter, Czenzi Ormonde - Screenwriter, Tom McDonald - Sequence Director, Rudy Larriva - Sequence Director, Gil Turner - Sequence Director, Osmond Evans - Sequence Director, Dick Shaw - Short Story Author, Lew Keller - Short Story Author

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