The Golden Arrow

The Golden Arrow (1962)

L'arciere delle mille e una notte

Scimitars Clash in a Mighty Spectacle!

Genies help an Arabian bandit (Tab Hunter) locate a magic arrow he needs to claim heirship to the sultan's kingdom.

Date of release
1962-09-07
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Adventure, Fantasy
Director
Antonio Margheriti

Casting

Interesting facts

The Golden Arrow is a 1962 Italian peplum film directed by Antonio Margheriti.

Production

Filming took place in Egypt and at Titanus Studios in Rome in late 1961 and into 1962.

Tab Hunter later recalled in his memoirs:

Not being able to speak Italian wasn't a drawback. The script of La Freccia d'Oro - my copy was the only one in English - featured page after page of truly horrendous dialogue... All I could think of was Tony Curtis in The Black Shield of Falworth (1954): "Yonda lies da castle of my fadda." I spend every night in my hotel, rewriting my lines so I'd at least have fun delivering them. I camped it up shamelessly.

Hunter added, "Considering what he had to work with, Antonio Margheriti wasn't a bad director. He worshipped American movies and didn't seem to care how lousy the material was, as long as he could follow in the boots of his boyhood idols."

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