moonspinner55 Burl Ives as a genie named Fakrash. He is released from an ancient Kum Kum bottle by former Paris beatnik Tony Randall, who is now struggling along in the suburbs as an unsuccessful architect. Naturally the genie causes trouble ("This isn't Baghdad, this is Pasadena!"), but the gags in Oscar Brodney's musty screenplay are right off an assembly line of bad jokes. Family film from Universal is too talky, really, to engage children (to say nothing of their parents), though Ives, Randall and Edward Andrews (and Barbara Eden as Randall's fiancée) work hard to buoy the familiar scenario. Adapted from a book by F. Anstey, this was the inspiration for Eden's forthcoming TV series, "I Dream of Jeannie". ** from ****

mrlucky2041 This was a movie I saw in the theater when I was a kid and have been looking for it for the last 15 or so years. The VHS tape is available on amazon for a ridiculous price so I haven't bought it but now that I see everyone else's comments I understand why. I too wish that the studio would release it on DVD and I would get a copy as soon as they did.To the person that remembered the scenes with the businessmen floating in the pitcher clinging to the Pencil, and the female Genie, I remember it too. IMDb doesn't list her in the credits but I remember her being a beautiful lady. Makes me wonder what else she did.It's rather curious how I came to think of this movie. I was thinking of the actor who played Kang on Star Trek TOS because he played a technomaige (sp) named Elric on Babylon 5 and looked him up only to find (and remember) that he was married to Barbara Eden and thought of this movie because I remembered she played Tony Randall's GF. I guess the idea of the Genie is deep in my memory from when I was an even younger boy and my parents bought me the story of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp on record those many years ago. "New Lamps for Old"! Anyone remember that? My how the time has past. I am not a big Tony Randall fan but I liked him in this. I keep thinking of him Honking in the Odd Couple series. Though that was his most famous role, he did loads more. Unfortunately I see him as more like Felix than any of his other roles. I seem to remember him in a movie with Rock Hudson A long time ago too. Now that would have seemed to have been more his type than Barbara Eden if we had known Rock as well then as we do now. Well Gooooooleeee Sargent Carter!!!! hehehehee Still it was a great movie and I would love to own a copy of it. It was Burl Ives' best roll. Much better than Rudolph's Narrator.

Lee Eisenberg For the most part, "The Brass Bottle" is one of those silly comedies that they cranked out in the early '60s. In this case, jittery architect Harold Ventimore (Tony Randall) frees genie Fakrash (Burl Ives) who tries to hard to please his new master. It only complicates matters when Harold can't explain things to his fiancée Sylvia Kenton (Barbara Eden). Will these genies ever be able to do things right?! Yes, this movie is very much a product of those days, when we viewed the Middle East as the land of sultans with harems; I believe that OPEC gave us the negative view that now dominates. But no matter, this movie is impossible not to like. In that sense, it's sort of like the other 1964 movie in which Tony Randall and Barbara Eden co-starred: "7 Faces of Dr. Lao" (which also had kind of a magical plot).So, it may be a movie impossible to take seriously, but it's definitely good for a few laughs. And if absolutely nothing else, we can sort of see Barbara Eden getting primed to play the most famous genie ever to grace TV screens. Also starring Edward Andrews, Ann Doran and Philip Ober (who appeared on the "I Dream of Jeannie" pilot).One more thing: I noticed in the courtroom scene a picture of Pres. Kennedy. Since this movie obviously came out after his assassination, wouldn't they have been nervous about showing his picture?

alc01 This was the in many ways the start of Barbara Eden with genies. In this movie she is the girlfriend to Tony Randall - who finds a genie - Burl Ives. While no sexy outfits for Eden, it is a great comedy that needs to be seen at least once - just for fun.