Abdulla the Great


Abdulla the Great, also known as Abdullahs Harem is a 1955 comedy film made by Misr Universal Cairo and Sphinx Films and distributed by Twentieth CenturyFox Film Corporation. It was directed and produced by Gregory Ratoff, from a screenplay by Boris Ingster and George St. George, based on the novel My Kingdom for a Woman by Ismet Regeila. The music score was by Georges Auric and the cinematography by Lee Garmes.

The film is set in a Middle Eastern country whose absolute ruler, Abdullah Gregory Ratoff, lives a life of great luxury, surrounded by lovely women. When Ronnie, a beautiful English model Kay Kendall, arrives, Abdullah falls for her and offers her great riches. She resists his advances as she is more interested in Ahmed Sydney Chaplin, an officer in the Kings army. While this is going on, Abdullah is unaware of the growing discontent among his subjects which threatens to overthrow him.

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