Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)
Ali Baba Goes to Town is a 1937 film starring Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, and Roland Young. Cantor plays a hobo named Aloysius "Al" Babson, who walks into the camp of a movie company that is making the Arabian Nights. He falls asleep and dreams he is in Baghdad as an advisor to the Sultan (Young). He organizes work programs, taxes the rich, and abolishes the army, in a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal.
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Cast:
- Phyllis Brooks
- The Ritz Brothers
- Eddie Cantor
- John Carradine
- Maurice Cass
- Alan Dinehart
- Dolores del Río
- Douglass Dumbrille
- Douglas Fairbanks
- Virginia Field
- Stanley Fields
- Jack Haley
- Sam Hayes
- Sonja Henie
- Paul Hurst
- Warren Hymer
- Charles Lane
- June Lang
- Gypsy Rose Lee
- Jeni Le Gon
- Tony Martin
- Victor McLaglen
- Tyrone Power
- Cesar Romero
- Raymond Scott
- Ann Sothern
- Shirley Temple
- Roland Young