Chu-Chin-Chow (Original title)Chu Chin Chow (Help search title)
Date: 08 October 1934 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Walter Forde
Synopsis: A version of 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves', with a slave girl foiling Abu Hasan who is posing as Chu-Chin-Chow, a mandarin he has killed.
Genres: Musical, Comedy
Subject: Folktales
Releases
Date: May 1934Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 102 mins 03 secs - Length: 9184 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: General Film Distributors
Date: 08 October 1934 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Walter Forde
Synopsis: A version of 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves', with a slave girl foiling Abu Hasan who is posing as Chu-Chin-Chow, a mandarin he has killed.
Genres: Musical, Comedy
Subject: Folktales
Releases
Date: May 1934Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 102 mins 03 secs - Length: 9184 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: General Film Distributors
Credits
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A Gainsborough Picture: Gainsborough Pictures, Presents: Gaumont British Picture Corp. Ltd., Producer: Michael Balcon, Assistant Producer: Phil C. Samuel, Unit Production Manager: Victor Peers, Gofer: Roy Ward Baker, Assistant Director: William J. Dodds, Screen Play and Dialogue: Edward Knoblock, Screen Play and Dialogue: Sidney Gilliat, L. Du Garde Peach, [Based on the Play] By: Oscar Asche, Photography: M. Greenbaum, Camera Assistant: Cyril Knowles, Editor: D.N. Twist, Assistant Editor: Lionel Hoare, Art Direction: Ernö Metzner, Costumes: Cathleen Mann, Music by: Frederic Norton, Additional Songs: Sidney Gilliat, [Music] under the direction of: Louis Levy, Orchestra Conducted by: Hubert Bath, Dances Arranged by: Anton Dolin, Recordist: A.C. O'Donoghue, Recorded on: British Acoustic Film, [Recorded] at: Islington
Cast
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Robert Adams (), George Robey (Ali Baba), Anna May Wong (Zahrat), Fritz Kortner (Abu Hasan), John Garrick (Nur-al-din), Pearl Argyle (Marjanah), Jetsam (Abdullah), Dennis Hoey (Rakham), Sydney Fairbrother (Mahbubah), Laurence Hanray (Kasim Baba), Frank Cochrane (Mustafa), Thelma Tuson (Alcolom), Francis Sullivan (the caliph), Gibb McLaughlin (Grand Vizier), Kyoshi Takase (entertainer at feast), Betty Lynn