The Adventures of Hajji Baba

The Adventures of Hajji Baba
Directed byDon Weis
Screenplay byRichard Collins
Based onHajji Baba
by James Justinian Morier
Produced byWalter Wanger
StarringJohn Derek
Elaine Stewart
CinematographyHarold Lipstein
Edited byWilliam Austin
Music byDimitri Tiomkin
Color processColor by DeLuxe
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • October 1, 1954 (1954-10-01)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$816,813[1]
Box office$2,019,100[1]

The Adventures of Hajji Baba is a 1954 American CinemaScope adventure film directed by Don Weis and starring John Derek and Elaine Stewart. Made in Southern California, it was released on October 1, 1954. In the credits it states that the film is suggested by The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Justinian Morier (3 vols., London, 1824).[2]

  1. ^ a b Matthew Bernstein, Walter Wanger: Hollywood Independent, Minnesota Press, 2000 p445
  2. ^ electricpulp.com. "HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org.