Aladdin makes a wish to return to his home. Unwittingly Aladdin rubs the lamp and releases a powerful genie who can grant any wish. Fearing that Hassim will kill him after he gets what he wants, Aladdin refuses to hand over the lamp and Hassim closes the cave trapping Aladdin. Aladdin reluctantly enters the cave and finds what Hassim was looking for: an old lamp. Hassim only brought him here because he is the only one who can enter the cave interior.
Once in the desert amid some ruins, Hassim performs an incantation to open a cave and Aladdin realizes that Hassim is not his uncle. A shifty man named Hassim approaches Aladdin claiming to be his long lost uncle and persuades him to come on a journey promising riches. It was released directly to video on Apby GoodTimes Home Video (7 months before Disney’s version was released) and was reissued on DVD in 2002 as part of the distributor's 'Collectible Classics' line of products.Ī young boy named Aladdin lives a poor life with his mother. Like all other Golden Films productions, the film featured a single song, 'Rub the Lamp', written and composed by Richard Hurwitz and John Arrias. Aladdin was produced by Golden Films and the American Film Investment Corporation. It is based on the classic Arabian Nights story Aladdin, translated by Antoine Galland.
