Abdul the Damned (1935)
1h 51m
Running Time
August 5, 1935Release Date
Plot.
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
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Cast & Crew.
Fritz Kortner
Sultan Abdul Hamid II / Kislar - His Double
Nils Asther
Kadar-Pasha, Chief of Police
John Stuart
Talak Pasha, Officer of the Turkish Army
Adrienne Ames
Therèse, Viennese Operetta Star
Esme Percy
Ali, the Grand Eunuch
Walter Rilla
Hassan-Bey
Karl Grune
Director
Charles Carson
Gen. Hilmi-Pasha
Robert Neumann
Writer
Ashley Dukes
Writer
Patric Knowles
Omar - Hilmi's Attache
Roger Burford
Writer
Eric Portman
Conspirastor
Clifford Heatherley
Court Doctor
Warren Chetham-Strode
Writer
Henry B. Longhurst
General of the Bodyguards
Emeric Pressburger
Writer
Annie Esmond
Therese's Train Companion
H. Saxon-Snell
Chief Interrogator
George Zucco
Officer of the Firing Squad
Robert Naylor
Opera Singer
Warren Jenkins
Young Turk Singer
Henry Peterson
Spy
Arthur Hardy
Ambassador
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Abdul the Damned (also known as Abdul Hamid) is a 1935 British drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther and John Stuart. It was made at the British International Pictures studios by Alliance-Capitol Productions. It is set in the Ottoman Empire in the years before the First World War, during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the constitutionalist Young Turks who dethroned him for power.