Satyajit Ray, by the way, used to score his own films. An all-rounder.

So did schlockmeister Charles Band.

As for Kauffman's review, he really surrenders all his credibility with

I personally have never found Duprez particularly attractive--she has a bit of a hard edge to my eye--but her Princess is a lovely creation and obviously the model for both the Montez creations which followed and Disney's own Jasmine.
That anyone could look at the ethereal June Duprez and not suffer heart palpitations is unimaginable.

Then there's this:

I would be remiss if I were not to mention the landmark musical score of Miklos Rozsa, mining here the leitmotif genre that was reaching its filmic apex after having been championed by such stalwarts as Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
R贸zsa never wrote in strict Wagnerian leitmotivs, and his THE THIEF OF BAGDAD score is no exception.

And it's "Silvermaid," Mr Kauffman, not "Silvermaiden."

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