Yvonne De Carlo

Richard Greene

Jackie Gleason

George Macready

Rock Hudson

Carl Esmond

Joe Besser

Anne P. Kramer

Marc Lawrence

Lois Andrews

Frank Puglia

Lucille Barkley

Donald Randolph

Ian MacDonald

Robert Anderson

Michael Ansara

Jan Arvan

Shirley Ballard

Lucile Barnes

Phillip Barnes

Lane Bradford

Chet Brandenburg

George Bruggeman

Harold Cornsweet

Norma De Landa

Marian Dennish

Robert Filmer

Terry Frost

Richard Hale

Eileen Howe

Virginia Hunter

Milton Kibbee

Frank Lackteen

Vonne Lester

Fred Libby

Frank Malet

Wilson Millar

Louis Nicoletti

Nestor Paiva

Mike Portanova

Jack Raymond

Bruce Riley

Victor Romito

Buddy Roosevelt

Michael Ross

Mahmud Shaikhaly

Lester Sharpe

Hazel Shaw

Dirk Wayne Summers

Dale Van Sickel

Wendy Waldron

Wally Walker

Ben Welden

Robert J. Wilke

Barbara Kelly

Polly Burson

Frederick de Cordova

Aubrey Wisberg

Gerald Drayson Adams

Jack Pollexfen

Leonard Goldstein

Russell Metty

Bill Thomas

Frank Skinner

Otto Ludwig

Daniel A. Nathan

Max Nippell

Bernard Herzbrun

Emrich Nicholson

John P. Austin

Russell A. Gausman

Joan St. Oegger

Bud Westmore

Olga Collings

Ray Romero

Leslie I. Carey

Corson Jowett

Philip H. Lathrop

Dean Paup

Fred Frank

Action

Adventure

The Desert Hawk

Universal International Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

A remarkably decent cast fail to enliven this rather verbose and dull Arabian Nights adventure based around the legendary character of "Scheherazade". This time she (Yvonne de Carlo) is the daughter of the Caliph who is tricked into marrying "Omar" (Richard Greene) in the belief that he is the Prince "Murad" (George Macready). Nobody is very impressed by this arrangement, the Princess demands the head of "Omar" and off we go on some colourful desert shenanigans during which the Princess realises that she might just have backed the wrong horse! Sadly, though, it is all just descends quickly into a routine sand and scimitar story as the men vie for her affections whilst pursuing wealth and power at the same time. It looks quite good, but the dialogue is pretty stilted and even with Jackie Gleason and a bit-part from Rock Hudson, it never really flows - indeed, much of the time it is just too meandering and lacklustre. Pity, though - better writing and direction could have made more of it.

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