Kismet 1955

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Kismet ★★ 1955

A big-budget Arabian Nights musical drama of a Baghdad street poet who manages to infiltrate himself into the Wazir's harem. The music was adapted from Borodin by Robert Wright and George Forrest. Fate; Not Since Ninevah; Baubles, Bangles, and Beads; Stranger in Paradise; Bored; Night of My Nights; The Olive Tree; And This Is My Beloved; Sands of Time. 113m/C VHS . Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Vic Damone; D: Vincente Minnelli; W: Charles Lederer, Luther Davis; C: Joseph Ruttenberg; M: Andre Previn.