A Night in New Arabia

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{{Infobox film

| name = A Night in New Arabia

| image = Production_photograph_from_the_1917_Broadway_Feature_Co._film_%22A_Night_in_New_Arabia%22.png

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| director = Thomas R. Mills

| producer = Vitagraph/Broadway Star Features Co.

| writer = F. R. Buckley

| based_on = O. Henry

| starring = {{Plain list|

• Frank Glendon
• Patsy De Forest
• {{ill|Horace Vinton|it}}
• Hattie Dalaro
• Hazlan Drouart}}

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| editing =

| distributor = General Film Co.

| released = {{Film date|1917|10|22}}

| runtime = 4 reels (Approx. 60 min.)

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles).{{Citation |last=T. |first=F. |title=Photoplay Reviews: 'A Night in New Arabia' |work=New York Dramatic Mirror |page=25 |date=November 10, 1917 |url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2010/New%20York%20NY%20Dramatic%20Mirror/New%20York%20NY%20Dramatic%20Mirror%201916%20Sep-Nov%201917%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Dramatic%20Mirror%201916%20Sep-Nov%201917%20Grayscale%20-%202333.pdf |access-date=June 18, 2019}}

}}

A Night in New Arabia is a lost 1917 four-reel silent film, directed by Thomas Mills.{{citation |title=Glendon in Another 'O. Henry' |work=Motography |volume=18 |issue=19 |date=November 10, 1917 |page=1009 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3hJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1009}} It is based on the short story "A Night in New Arabia" from Strictly Business, a collection of 23 short stories by O. Henry published in 1910. The movie critic for the Moving Picture World, Margaret I. MacDonald, says that it "...is one of the best of the O. Henry four-part features".{{Citation |last=MacDonald |first=Margaret I. |title=Two O. Henrys: 'The Enchanted Kiss' and 'A Night in New Arabia' Two Fine Specimens of O. Henry Philosophy in Film |work=Moving Picture World |page=1032 |date=November 17, 1917 |url=https://archive.org/details/mopict34chal/page/1032 |access-date=June 18, 2019}}

The picture was part of the O. Henry Stories series of films produced by Vitagraph Studios/Broadway Star Features and distributed by the General Film Company. All based on O. Henry short stories, these pictures featured many of the same actors and included Friends in San Rosario, The Third Ingredient, The Marionettes, The Green Door, Past One at Rooney's, The Cop and the Anthem, The Gold That Glittered, The Duplicity of Hargraves, The Guilty Party, The Last Leaf and The Love Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein.{{Citation |title=Three O. Henry Players Return in 'The Last Leaf' |work=Motion Picture News |page=4183 |date=December 15, 1917 |url=https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew16moti_1/page/4182 |access-date=June 18, 2019}}