Watched Kismet on TCM because I wanted to see something nice and exotic about the Middle East for a change. I was disappointed. While I enjoyed hearing "Stranger in Paradise" and its romantic lyrics all over again, the rest reflected a shallow knowledge of the setting and the subject matter by Wright and Forrest, the same way The King and I reflected the same of Siam/Thailand  and South Pacific of the Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein. All three might just as well have been set in fantasy, Flash Gordon settings.

While I'm at it I might as well say what I thought of Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which seemed to be a European's idea of what a Chinese movie should look like.