Ali Baba Goes to Town

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Ali Baba Goes to Town
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Directed by	David Butler
Written by	C. Graham Baker Gene Fowler Gene Towne Harry Tugend Jack Yellen
Produced by	Darryl F. Zanuck David Hempstead
Starring	Eddie Cantor Tony Martin Roland Young
Cinematography	Ernest Palmer
Edited by	Irene Morra
Music by	Robert Russell Bennett
Production company	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	October 29, 1937 (1937-10-29)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Ali Baba Goes to Town is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, and Roland Young. Cantor plays a hobo named Aloysius "Al" Babson, who walks into the camp of a movie company that is making the Arabian Nights. He falls asleep and dreams he is in Baghdad as an advisor to the Sultan (Young). He organizes work programs, taxes the rich, and abolishes the army, in a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal. This film was the second of three in which Shirley Temple and Cesar Romero appeared together, second was Wee Willie Winkie (1937) and The Little Princess (1939).^[1]

The cast also includes Gypsy Rose Lee, using the stage name of Louise Hovick, as the Sultana. The Raymond Scott Quintette also appears, performing "Twilight In Turkey."