A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Howard Keel
• Ann Blyth
• Dolores Gray
• Vic Damone
• Monty Woolley
• Sebastian Cabot
• Jay C. Flippen
• Mike Mazurki