Episode 13 · Feature, Heist, Magic, Family
Ali Baba — The Complete Tale
Both chapters as one 29-minute feature
The story
The cave and the rescue — Ali Baba's whole story cut together as a single film in 4K, from a phrase overheard in the woods to forty jars at the family's door.
A boy gathering mushrooms at dawn hears a phrase he was never meant to hear. A cave that answers to it. A captain who never forgets a debt, and a train of clay jars that should have held only oil.
Ali Baba — The Complete Tale brings both Ali Baba films together as one continuous feature: The Cave and The Rescue, re-cut for a single sitting.
Twenty-nine minutes, in 4K, free on the SAGAS channel.
Key moments
- A phrase overheard in the woods
- The cave that answers to a word
- A fortune carried home
- The captain traces the footprints back
- Forty jars at the door
Characters
- Thieves Leader · Leader of the riders
- Thief 1 · Rider in the band
- Thief 2 · Rider in the band
- Thief 3 · Rider in the band
The tale behind the episode
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves also entered the Nights through Galland and Hanna Diyab, in 1717. The 1001 series makes Ali Baba a boy and gives the cleverness of the original's heroine Morgiana to his sister Marjana, while keeping the essentials: words that open a mountain, a greedy intruder trapped inside, and a captain who returns as an oil merchant with his men hidden in jars.
Read more: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: Origins of the Tale.
