Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.

The film played in ten cities across the United States in the wide-screen Vitascope (65mm) version, while the rest of the country (which did not yet have theaters capable of playing widescreen films) were provided with standard 35mm prints.

[1] The enormous amount of pre-Code content (especially in the sequences in the harem) has probably contributed to the film's "lost" status.

Some sources claim that the original 1930 film featured Technicolor sequences.

The German version, also titled Kismet, was directed by William Dieterle, and was released in 1931.