Production
The movie claims to be based on Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade," though no similarity can be found between its plot and the story. The film borrows some elements and characters from the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad. The movie was made with a largely Italian cast and crew. Like most Italian pepla, it was filmed on location without sound equipment and all dialogue and sound effects were dubbed later. Luigi Cozzi was originally going to direct the film but he was replaced at the last minute by the producers with Enzo G. Castellari. Castellari changed Cozzi's script drastically and several million dollars later, wound up submitting three hours of non-releasable footage to the producer, who shelved the project. In 1989, Cozzi was hired back to try to fix up the picture, the producer spending an additional half million dollars finishing it.
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