El tenorio del harem
Cast & Crew
Kurt Neumann
Slim Summerville
Lupita Tovar
Tom Kennedy
Manuel Arbó
Eduardo Arozamena
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
During World War I, a bugler and a sergeant are great friends, except when they are both after the same woman. After swearing eternal love to all their girl friends in Russia, they leave for a new base in Arabia, where just touching a young woman is a crime punishable by marriage or death. During their free time, the two friends decide to take a look at the city and, elbowing their way through a crowd of soldiers watching a performance by a fakir, discover Fátima, the most delightful woman they could possibly imagine. The bugler and sergeant engage in a private war to win Fátima and the bugler wins. However, Fátima's irate father demands that the army officials hand over the bugler to him as he must marry Fátima. On hearing mention of marriage, the bugler takes off and the sergeant wins Fátima. However, nine months later, a baby arrives looking remarkably like the losing suitor.
Director
Kurt Neumann
Cast
Slim Summerville
Lupita Tovar
Tom Kennedy
Manuel Arbó
Eduardo Arozamena
José Peña "pepet"
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Universal originally intended to make Spanish-language versions of two short English-language films, Arabian Knights and Let's Play, which were directed by Stephen Roberts and starred Slim Summerville and Tom Kennedy. In January 1931, after production of the Spanish version of the former film, which was called Caballeros árabes, was completed and shooting of the latter film was in progress, the studio decided to combine the two Spanish-language versions into a feature production and shoot additional footage to make the film 65 minutes. Additional scenes were shot in February 1931. While it appears that the two-reel Caballeros árabes was edited, it does not seem likely that a Spanish-language version of Let's Play was ever edited. It seems that the feature, El tenorio del harem, contains nearly all of the unreleased Spanish version of Let's Play, but only a few scenes from Caballeros árabes. With the exception of the dialogue director and cast, all credits listed above were taken from production records of Caballeros árabes.
