A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.

• DirectorVincente Minnelli
• Release8 October 1955
• Genre
  Music / Romance
• Duration1h 53m
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• Rate
  

  5.0
  13 reviews
• Productions

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer