THE ASTOR REVIEW

This is not the usual Sinbad tale you may have seen in other Hollywood-based films, for this pirate’s tale who’s principal interests are Girls and ‘Greek Fire’, was a very strange production. Billionaire industrialist Howard Hughes owned RKO Studios at the time, and, as with most of Hughes’ projects, he obsessively supervised a lot of the details, especially involving young starlets. You see, Hughes had a rampant appetite for female company and to all the wannabe starlets he slept with, he promised to ‘Put Them In The Movies’. His dilemma was finding hundreds of films to do that – so he put them all in this one! You’ve heard about Lily St Cyr in Rocky Horror, now see her strut her stuff in this Harem boob-fest. The trail of ‘Slaves’ in high heels and glamourous gowns is something to see. This is an extremely rare original Technicolor 35mm print – one ‘eye’ of an originally intended two-print 3D presentation – this film is full of surprises and hilarity. George Florence

IMDB SYNOPSIS

Sinbad was pursuing a secret weapon: Greek Fire. Attributed to the ancient Greeks, it was composed of pitch or bitumen, sulfur, and other ingredients. It was used in naval warfare and the Romans also made use of it but with the fall of the ancient Western world, it was temporarily forgotten, but it was rediscovered by the Arabs from whom European Crusaders also learned the method of making it.