The Brass Bottle

The Brass Bottle is a 1964 American fantasy-comedy film about a modern man who accidentally acquires the friendship of a long-out-of-circulation genie. The film stars Tony Randall, Burl Ives and Barbara Eden. The film is based on the 1900 novel of the same title by Thomas Anstey Guthrie and later inspired the American fantasy sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, starring Eden. Plot Architect Harold Ventimore (Tony Randall) buys a large antique container that turns out to imprison a genie named Fakrash Alamash (Burl Ives), whom Harold inadvertently sets free. Fakrash is effusively grateful for his release, and persistently tries to do favors for Harold to show his gratitude. However he has been in the brass bottle for a long time, and Fakrash's unfamiliarity with the modern world causes all sorts of problems when he tries to please his rescuer. Harold ends up in a great deal of trouble, including with his girlfriend, Sylvia Kenton (Barbara Eden). Cast Tony Randall as Harold Ventimore Burl Ives as Fakrash Barbara Eden as Sylvia Kenton Kamala Devi as Tezra, a female genie Edward Andrews as Professor Kenton Lulu Porter as a belly dancer Richard Erdman as Seymour Jenks Kathie Browne as Hazel Jenks Ann Doran as Martha Kenton Philip Ober as William Beevor Parley Baer as Samuel Wackerbath Howard Smith as Senator Grindle