The Prince and the Princess (Le Prince et la princesse) (Michel Ocelot, France, 1989). A rare, gorgeous retelling of an Arabian Nights jest with animated silhouettes. Inspired by Arthur Rackham and Lotte Reiniger, Ocelot is today's foremost master of cut-out animation. (9 mins, Color, VHS, From Russell Merritt)Sinbad sails for lost treasure on a ghost bagala and confronts the mystery of his own birth. No fabulous monsters on this voyage, but a fiendish labyrinthine pursuit involving a wide-awake princess (Maureen O'Hara), a cunning Emir (Anthony Quinn), and a shivery phantom known only as Jamal. This was Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s spirited tribute to his father. It's an eclectic comic-book sort of adaptation, grounded in film noir, Borscht Belt comedy, and Baron Munchausen as much as it is in the Arabian Nights. Ciné-swash at its most delightful.-Russell Merritt