In an attempt to cash in on the popularity of the Maria Montez Universal movies, Columbia in 1953 issued the hilariously awful “Prisoners of the Casbah” with Cesar Romero, Turhan Bey and Gloria Grahame. The costumes are decent but the acting and sets are strictly poverty row studio shlock.
Ms. Grahame is totally unbelievable as any kind of Arabian princess. Bey is the butt of many jokes but he is sexy as the dashing hero. (Bey was a co-star in the Montez movies.) Romero, as the corrupt king, must have been rehearsing for his Joker shtick in the ‘60s campy “Batman” TV show. Can you believe this mess?
