Shortly after its appearance as a VHS by GoodTimes, the Disney Company brought an unfair competition and infringement lawsuit, claiming that the GoodTimes packaging deliberately imitated the style of the images used by Disney to promote its own Aladdin theatrical film thereby deceiving consumers into thinking they were buying the Disney film (which had not yet been issued on VHS). Candi Milo – Fatima, Aladdin's Mother, Additional Voices.Cam Clarke – Aladdin, Additional Voices.Maurice LaMarche - Sultan, Additional Voices.Jeff Bennett – The Genie, Hassim, Additional Voices.Aladdin and the princess then live happily ever after without the fear of anyone stealing the lamp again. Aladdin and Hassim duel, ending up with Hassim tripping on his robe and is accidentally impaled by his own sword, killing himself. Aladdin feigns illness to bring Hassim right where he wants him. The genie is not able to grant this wish as the Roc is superior to him and reveals that Fatima is actually Hassim. He holds Fatima at knifepoint and steals her clothes to disguise himself as her, then beckons the princess to have Aladdin wish for the egg of the fabled Roc to bring them good luck. Hassim notices Aladdin's liberation and swears revenge. With the lamp back in his possession, Aladdin wishes his wife and palace to be returned to his homeland. With his mother in the sultan's custody and one month to put things right, Aladdin travels to Marrakesh, sneaks into his palace and swipes the lamp from a sleeping Hassim. Before Aladdin can be sentenced, Fatima (who did not get her end of the bargain with Hassim) approaches and reveals the whereabouts of Layla. Hearing about his daughter's disappearance, the sultan has Aladdin arrested.

With Aladdin out on a hunt, Hassim tricks Layla into swapping the genie's lamp for a new one and makes a wish for the palace and princess to be transported to Marrakesh. Hassim hears about Aladdin's success with the lamp from the medicine woman Fatima. The sultan allows Aladdin to marry Layla and Aladdin has the genie build a palace by the city for the married couple to live in peacefully. With the aid of the lamp, Aladdin accomplishes this. The sultan's conniving vizier (who has plans to marry the princess himself) convinces the sultan that his daughter is worth more than the jewels and that Aladdin should bring bigger riches and many servants. The next day, Aladdin's mother presents a sack of jewels he obtained from the cave before the sultan. Aladdin escapes the guards and returns home to tell his mother his wish to marry the princess. After his safe return, Aladdin's mother disregards the lamp and Aladdin keeps it hidden and remains silent about it.įour years later, Aladdin is captivated by the Sultan's daughter Layla and sneaks into the bathing house to see her. Aladdin makes a wish to return to his home. Unwittingly Aladdin rubs the lamp and releases a powerful genie who can grant any wish. Fearing that Hassim will kill him after he gets what he wants, Aladdin refuses to hand over the lamp and Hassim closes the cave trapping Aladdin. Aladdin reluctantly enters the cave and finds what Hassim was looking for: an old lamp.

Hassim only brought him here because he is the only one who can enter the cave interior. Once in the desert amid some ruins, Hassim performs an incantation to open a cave and Aladdin realizes that Hassim is not his uncle.

A shifty man named Hassim approaches Aladdin claiming to be his long lost uncle and persuades him to come on a journey promising riches. It was released directly to video on Apby GoodTimes Home Video (7 months before Disney’s version was released) and was reissued on DVD in 2002 as part of the distributor's 'Collectible Classics' line of products.Ī young boy named Aladdin lives a poor life with his mother. Like all other Golden Films productions, the film featured a single theme song, 'Rub the Lamp', written and composed by Richard Hurwitz and John Arrias. Aladdin was produced by Golden Films and the American Film Investment Corporation. It is based on the classic Arabian Nights story, Aladdin and the magic lamp, translated by Antoine Galland.

Aladin 1993