Nights as a Source. The Nights is predominantly used as a source for Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas in its use of the character Sinbad, and the fact that Sinbad is a sailor. It also draws on Sinbad’s lust of adventure on sea and the wild animals he meets during these adventures such as the roc bird and the island that turns out to be a whale. In the 1001 Nights Sinbad marries Marjānah and in the animated movie he lives happily ever after with Marina. This is really where the similarities end because this adaptation adds many different elements that are not found in the Nights.
Other Sinbad movies as sources. According to Wen-Chin Ouyang in “Whose Story Is It? Sindbad the Sailor in literature and film” all Sinbad movies draw on the silent film The Thief of Bagdad and have the common plot theme of a hero rescuing the girl after beating the villain and of course, winning some sort of treasure. In the case of Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas the treasure is the Book of Peace.