The opening of the movie takes place in Damascus, which is a city in southern Syria. Damascus is one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in the world, having been occupied since about 6300 B.C.
This film represents the absolute nadir of Hunter's entire career (and that's saying a lot). In his autobiography, Hunter admits this is a "stinker," and that he agreed to make it largely because its backers agreed to pay him weekly in cash.
Featuring elaborate sets and lavish costumes, this film ended up going so far over budget it almost single-handedly bankrupted the Italian film company who financed it.
Among the reasons this film is so incoherent and disjointed are the facts that its screenplay lists six writers (none of whom were apparently familiar with English) and that Tab Hunter himself spent every moment of its production that didn't require him to be on camera desperately re-writing the dialogue, much of which he found embarrassing to speak.