After Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar trods on his toe, Abdul the Bulbul Ameer challenges him to a fight.After Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar trods on his toe, Abdul the Bulbul Ameer challenges him to a fight.After Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar trods on his toe, Abdul the Bulbul Ameer challenges him to a fight.
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Leon Belasco
- Ivan Skavinsky
- (uncredited)
- …
Hans Conried
- Abdul
- (uncredited)
Johnny Murray
- Fight Commentator
- (uncredited)
Harry Stanton
- Singing Narration
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Robert Allen(uncredited)
- Hugh Harman(uncredited)
- Writer
- Gus Arriola(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLeon Belasco, who voices the character of the Russian Ivan Skavinsky, was born in the Russian Empire city of Odessa (in present-day Ukraine).
- GoofsWhen Abdul first removes the slipper from his right foot and pinches Ivan's Attaché's nose between his big toe and the adjacent toe, the foot has four toes. In the closeup of Abdul's smashed right foot, he has five toes. The next shot shows Abdul's left foot and ripped slipper (with the right foot slipper completely intact), and it has only four toes.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Singing Narration: The sons of the prophet are brave men and bold / And quite unaccustomed to fear / But the bravest by far in the ranks of the shah / Was Abdul the Bul-bul Ameer.
Abdul: You said it, boss.
Featured review
Abdul and Ivan the Terrible
Watching this 1941 MGM cartoon is pretty pointless unless you're familiar with the Percy French-Frank Crumit song, "Abdul Abulbul Amir." And if you know the song, then what's the point of seeing this cartoon? I suppose the intent was to provide a comical illustration of what's described in the lyrics, but we only get fragments of the original text. Perhaps the animators would have done better to have done a more faithful visual accompaniment, one that stuck more closely to the song.
Said to have been a favorite of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's, the French-Crumit song "Abdul Abulbul Amir" is a very humorous if (by today's standards) politically incorrect ballad that tells the tale of two mighty warriors: Ivan from Russia, and Abdul, who is either an Arab, a Persian or a Turk. They get into the fight of their lives, and don't know when to quit (or how). My introduction to it was a tuneful rendition by country singer Hank Thompson. It made me chuckle a few times, and I actually laughed aloud the first time I heard the closing line, which provided a perfect ending.
Nothing about this cartoon (titled "Abdul the Bulbul-Ameer") made me chuckle; not the way the main characters are portrayed, not the standard animated slapstick, and certainly not the three-man American newsreel crew thrown in for added comic relief (one of them, a Groucho Marx lookalike, keeps pointlessly shouting, "What a fight!"). The whole thing makes for a Technicolorful, pointless mess. You'd do better to listen to the Thompson recording, which actually tells you a story.
(I saw an excellent quality copy of this cartoon uploaded onto YouTube - who knows how long it will remain there.)
Said to have been a favorite of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's, the French-Crumit song "Abdul Abulbul Amir" is a very humorous if (by today's standards) politically incorrect ballad that tells the tale of two mighty warriors: Ivan from Russia, and Abdul, who is either an Arab, a Persian or a Turk. They get into the fight of their lives, and don't know when to quit (or how). My introduction to it was a tuneful rendition by country singer Hank Thompson. It made me chuckle a few times, and I actually laughed aloud the first time I heard the closing line, which provided a perfect ending.
Nothing about this cartoon (titled "Abdul the Bulbul-Ameer") made me chuckle; not the way the main characters are portrayed, not the standard animated slapstick, and certainly not the three-man American newsreel crew thrown in for added comic relief (one of them, a Groucho Marx lookalike, keeps pointlessly shouting, "What a fight!"). The whole thing makes for a Technicolorful, pointless mess. You'd do better to listen to the Thompson recording, which actually tells you a story.
(I saw an excellent quality copy of this cartoon uploaded onto YouTube - who knows how long it will remain there.)
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- genekim
- Dec 22, 2014
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Эмир Абдуль-Бульбуль
- Production company
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- Runtime9 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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