The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

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Cast & Crew.

Douglas Fairbanks
The Thief of Bagdad / Story / Producer

Snitz Edwards
His Evil Associate

Charles Belcher
The Holy Man

Julanne Johnston
The Princess

Sôjin Kamiyama
The Mongol Prince

Anna May Wong
The Mongol Slave

Brandon Hurst
The Caliph

Tote Du Crow
The Soothsayer

Noble Johnson
The Indian Prince

Sam Baker
Sworder (uncredited)

Laska Winter
Slave of the Lute (uncredited)

Etta Lee
Slave of the Sand Board (uncredited)

Mathilde Comont
Persian Prince (uncredited)

Charles Stevens
Persian Prince's Awaker (uncredited)

Eugene Jackson
Child (uncredited)

Jesse Lasky Jr.
(uncredited)

David Sharpe
(uncredited) / Stunts

Paul Malvern
Gigantic Bat (uncredited)

Scotty Mattraw
Eunuch (uncredited)

Jess Weldon
Eunuch (uncredited)

K. Nambu
Mongol Prince's Counselor (uncredited)

William Nolan
Editor

Achmed Abdullah
Screenplay

William Cameron Menzies
Production Design / Art Direction

James T. O'Donohoe
Adaptation / Assistant Director

Raoul Walsh
Director

Arthur Edeson
Director of Photography

George Westmore
Makeup Artist

Theodore Reed
Production Manager

Phil Whitman
First Assistant Camera

Hampton Del Ruth
Special Effects / Mechanical Designer

Jack Stoney
Stunts

Mitchell Leisen
Costume Design

Richard Holahan
Second Assistant Director

Mortimer Wilson
Music

Albert Wayne
Electrician

Paul Burns
Property Master / Wardrobe Supervisor

Coy Watson Sr.
Special Effects

Charles Warrington
Still Photographer

Lotta Woods
Story Editor
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Details.
Release DateMarch 18, 1924
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 29m
Content RatingNR
Budget$1,135,654
Box Office$1,490,419
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The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American silent adventure film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, and written by Achmed Abdullah and Lotta Woods. Freely adapted from One Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad. In 1996, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Fairbanks considered this to be the favorite of his films, according to his son. The imaginative gymnastics suited the athletic star, whose "catlike, seemingly effortless" movements were as much dance as gymnastics. Along with his earlier The Mark of Zorro (1920) and Robin Hood (1922), the film marked Fairbanks's transformation from genial comedy to a career in "swashbuckling" roles. The film, strong on special effects (flying carpet, magic rope and fearsome monsters) and featuring massive Arabian-style sets, also proved to be a stepping stone for Anna May Wong, who portrayed a treacherous Mongol slave.
The Thief of Bagdad is now widely considered one of the great silent films and Fairbanks's greatest work. Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance writes, "An epic romantic fantasy-adventure inspired by several of the Arabian Nights tales, The Thief of Bagdad is the greatest artistic triumph of Fairbanks's career. The superb visual design, spectacle, imaginative splendor, and visual effects, along with his bravura performance (leading a cast of literally thousands), all contribute to making this his masterpiece."
The film was remade several times; the 1940 Technicolor version splits the main character into two: a deposed prince and a thief, the latter played by Sabu.
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