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Chu Chin Chow
Directed by
Walter Forde
Not Rated
1934
1h 43m
[Comedy](/on-demand/category/comedy), [Musical](/on-demand/category/musical)
6.1
78%
5.0
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Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
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Cast of Chu Chin Chow
Anna May Wong
Zahrat
George Robey
Ali Baba
Fritz Kortner
Abu Hasan
John Garrick
Nur-al-din Baba
Pearl Argyle
Marjanah, servant girl
Malcolm 'Mr. Jetsam' McEachern
Abdullah, Kassim's major-domo
Dennis Hoey
Rakham, chief henchman
Sydney Fairbrother
Mahbubah Baba, Ali's wife
Laurence Hanray
Kasim Baba
Frank Cochrane
Mustafa
Thelma Tuson
Alcolom Baba, Kassim's wife
Francis L. Sullivan
The Caliph
Gibb McLaughlin
The Caliph's Vizier
Kiyoshi Takase
Entertainer at Feast
Walter Forde
Director
Edward Knoblock
Screenplay
L. du Garde Peach
Screenplay
Sidney Gilliat
Screenplay
Frederic Norton
Songs
Oscar Asche
Lyricist
Chu Chin Chow Ratings & Reviews
The New Republic
Otis Ferguson
The movie is flawed and may require a certain mood of acceptance, but it is foolish and delightful, and I like it.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Colvin McPherson
It is a distinctly superior picture, by any a delight.
Harrison's Reports
P.S. Harrison
It is a fantasy made up of exciting dramatic situations, and good comedy, all of which is aided by an unusually good musical score and fine voices.
The Nippu Jiji (Honolulu)
James T. Hamada
The film is a 92-minute entertalinment. It tells the story of All Baba and the 40 and Is a well-balanced combination of melodrama and comedy with plenty of thrills, revelry, some sadistic killings, high-powered acting and some grand songs.
Vanity Fair
Helen Brown Norden
An over-elaborate and quite dull British spectacle.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
U.S. cinemaddicts may find the photography in Chu Chin Chow inferior to most recent Hollywood musicomedies... but are likely to approve the decor, [music, and Anna May Wong,] the only performer in the cast whose name is familiar to them.
New York Times
Frank S. Nugent
Britain's long-heralded invasion of the American film market has begun with the offerings at the Roxy of Chu Chin Chow, a tuneful, spectacular and robust adaptation of the Oscar Asche comic operetta.
Variety
Variety Staff
This lavish musical from the British studios is a colorful, extravagant costume film that makes its bid for attention purely on an extravaganza platform, and makes the grade.
TV Guide
TV Guide Staff
Musical retelling of the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is well done, if a bit slow.
Film Threat
Phil Hall
An old stinker.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
This 1934 talkie gives Ms. Wong a couple of powerful scenes to play, looking both dangerous and sexy either dancing or brandishing a dagger.
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