Lists
- ranked 345 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (August 2005)
- ranked 378 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (March 2006)
- ranked 397 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (December 2006)
- one of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills Nominees
- one of Guardian 1,000 films to see before you die
- one of The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made
Marvellously atrocious! It's poorly-paced, grandiloquently written, hammily acted, and takes place atop a naïve children's-fantasy Arabia. And it's wonderful. It's the kind of unsophisticated dream that long since went out of fashion -- more colourful, more magnificent, more vibrant than life (or what passes for fantasy nowadays). Dreadful, but charming in its way.