An Alternate Aladdin

[sniffnoy]

So I was in CVS the other day, and over where they have the DVDs, I saw a movie called "Aladdin". Now I'm sure there have been many movies made of this old tale - IMDB lists 14 just with that exact title - but what I noticed about this one in particular was that firstly, it was animated; secondly, it was not the Disney version; and thirdly, that, from the cover art, it looked like it was trying to imitate the Disney version (though they named the princess "Leila" (not "Badroulbadour", unfortunately)). Hm. Anyway, today I looked up this movie, and according to Wikipedia, it was actually released *before* the Disney version. (I can't verify this anywhere else, though, as the release date seems to be generally just given as a year, and, what do you know? It came out the same year.) No mention is made in either article (or in either IMDB entry) of anyone having suggested that one might imitate the other, though. Well, I haven't actually seen this Golden Films version, but still, what was on the cover looked similar. (Wikipedia does mention various things from Aladdin as imitating a 1940 movie called "The Thief of Baghdad" which is not about the Aladdin story.)

Hm.

-Harry