---
title: 'Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)'
type: 'film'
director: 'David Butler'
released: '1937-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 96
genres:
  - 'Fantasy'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Music'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/ali-baba-goes-to-town-1937'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028566/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)

1937 · 96 min · Fantasy, Comedy, Music · United States


## Synopsis

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).

## Credits

- **Director:** [David Butler](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-butler-2)
- **Screenplay:** [Charles Graham Baker](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-graham-baker), [Harry Tugend](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-tugend)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Robert Russell Bennett](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-russell-bennett)
- **Producer:** [Darryl F. Zanuck](https://cinepixo.com/people/darryl-f-zanuck)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ernest Palmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-palmer-2)
- **Editor:** [Irene Morra](https://cinepixo.com/people/irene-morra)

## Cast

- [Victor McLaglen](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-mclaglen)
- [Lee J. Cobb](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-j-cobb)
- [Ann Sothern](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-sothern)
- [Ferdinand Gottschalk](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferdinand-gottschalk)
- [Douglass Dumbrille](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglass-dumbrille)
- [Edward Hearn](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-hearn)
- [Virginia Field](https://cinepixo.com/people/virginia-field)
- [Eddie Collins](https://cinepixo.com/people/eddie-collins)
- [Paul Hurst](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-hurst)
- [Raymond Scott](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-scott)
- [Shirley Temple](https://cinepixo.com/people/shirley-temple)
- [Francis McDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-mcdonald)
- [The Peters Sisters](https://cinepixo.com/people/the-peters-sisters)
- [Tony Martin](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-martin)
- [Charles Lane](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-lane)

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