
With smooth talking and some trickery, Sinbad escapes again, taking Shireen along. He is captured, but because the emir believes him to be the prince of Deryabar, he becomes his guest. Strange stories of the evil Jamal circulate among the crew, but no one alive has ever seen him.Īfter several days, Sinbad sails to another port and risks death to visit Shireen in the harem. Sinbad escapes and steals the ship, acquiring a rough crew to man it. Jamal, only vaguely seen behind a curtain, makes an attempt on Sinbad's life. Visiting Shireen that night in her garden, Sinbad learns of a mysterious and deadly person known as Jamal who will stop at nothing to acquire the treasure. He steals the auctioneer's money to pay for the ship. When Sinbad bids against her, he owes an enormous sum that he cannot pay. At the last moment, a veiled woman named Shireen appears, a member of the harem of the powerful emir of Daibul. He discourages all of the bidders with insinuations that the ship may be cursed. Sinbad obtains an agreement that he may keep the ship if there are no bids. However, when he sails to Basra, the ship is confiscated by the local khan, to be sold at auction. On board, he finds a map to the lost treasure of Alexander the Great on the fabled island of Deryabar. With his friend Abbu, Sinbad salvages a ship whose crew has been poisoned. When his listeners become bored with his tired tales, Sinbad recounts his eighth voyage.

Sinbad regales a group of travelers around a nighttime campfire.

Plot Fairbanks and O'Hara in the film's trailer It tells the tale of the eighth voyage of Sinbad in which he discovers the lost treasure of Alexander the Great. Sinbad the Sailor is a 1947 American Technicolor fantasy film directed by Richard Wallace and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Anthony Quinn and Mike Mazurki.
