Vagabond singer Aladdin ( Cornel Wilde) has his hands full keeping his pickpocket friend, Abdullah ( Phil Silvers), out of trouble.
It was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction, Color ( Stephen Goosson, Rudolph Sternad, Frank Tuttle) and Best Special Effects ( Ray Bomba and Lawrence W. Green and starring Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers, Adele Jergens and Cornel Wilde. A Thousand and One Nights is a 1945 tongue-in-cheek American adventure fantasy film set in the Baghdad of the One Thousand and One Nights, directed by Alfred E.