Kismet (Blu-ray)

With Alexander Borodins soaring music fashioned by Robert Wright and George Forrest into Stranger in Paradise, Baubles, Bangles and Beads and even more evergreens, Kismet turned the Broadway stage into a glittering, gleaming Arabian Nights dream. Ideal material, in fact, for the dream factory. To Hollywood and director Vincente Minnelli, Kismet was kismet. This lavish musical follows one fateful, fabulous day as a beggar-poet (Howard Keel) and his daughter (Angg Blyth) cross paths with a wicked wazir, a wily temptress, a handsome prince, a magical curse, opulent sets and exotic adventure. Princes come, princes go, sings the beggar. Glorious Kismet endures!

Starring: Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Vic Damone, Monty Woolley, Patricia Dunn, Reiko Sato, Julie Robinson, Nita Bieber, Sebastian Cabot, Jay C. Flippen, Mike Mazurki, Jack Elam, Ted de Corsia, Jack Dodds, Marc Wilder, Pat Sheehan, June Kirby, Gloria Rhoads, Ross Bagdasarian, Barrie Chase, Virginia Lee, Vera Lee, Herman Boden, Reginald Lal Singh, William Bagdad, Bruno Ve Sota, Don Orlando, Marc Krah, Jean Hartelle, Mel Welles, Alan Lee, David Hoffman, Aaron Spelling, Charles Wagenheim, Norbert Schiller, Nick Thompson, Leonard George, Norman Leavitt, George Khoury, Jameel Farah, Noel Cravat, Frank Mitchell, Phil Rich, Frank Radcliffe, Bernie Hamilton, George Bruggeman, George Keymas, Ethan Laidlaw, Charles Mauu, John Mansfield, Jan Arvan, Louise Franklin, Ed Agresti, Richard Alameda, Guy Manford, David Bond, Leonard Mudie

Director: Arthur Freed