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Title: Good entertainment, cardboard characters.
Review: This is a wholesome and entertaining swashbuckler about Sinbad the Sailor and his search for the treasure island of "Dariabar". The story is a fairly typical Hollywood Arabian Nights swashbuckler where scantilly veiled women are at the mercy of a greedy Arab potentate and a lowly hero rises to save the day.Douglas Fairbanks Jr. must have taken acting lessons from his father for his role as Sinbad. Fairbanks overgesticulates for two hours as though he was in a silent picture.Maureen O'Hara's character is the most demure and unlikeable sea adventurer she ever played. O'Hara never engages in swordplay and even compromises her integrity to achieve a goal. She does come through as a good guy in the end however.Anthony Quinn, type-cast again as Hollywood's all-purpose ethnic does a solid job as the evil Arabian Prince who wants to rule the world.Even with poor characters, this is still good fun.
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