Category: Adventure
All Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Release Year: 1940
Country: UK
Runtime: 106
Rating: 7.4 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Ludwig BergerMichael PowellTim WhelanAlexander KordaZoltan KordaWilliam Cameron Menzies
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

One Thousand and One Sights from One Thousand and One Nights

The Wonder Picture of All Time

Three brave hearts, adventuring in a wonder world!

Writing by: Miles Malleson - (screenplay and dialogue)
Lajos Biró - (scenario) (as Lajos Biro)

Produced by: Alexander Korda - producer
Zoltan Korda - associate producer
William Cameron Menzies - associate producer

Cast: Conrad Veidt - Jaffar
Sabu - Abu
June Duprez - Princess
John Justin - Ahmad
Rex Ingram - Djinn
Miles Malleson - Sultan
Morton Selten - The Old King
Mary Morris - Halima
Bruce Winston - The Merchant
Hay Petrie - Astrologer
Adelaide Hall - Singer

Music: Miklós Rózsa
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Plot Outline: Prince Ahmad is the rightful King of Bagdad but he has been blinded and cast out as a beggar. Now a...
Plot: Prince Ahmad is the rightful King of Bagdad but he has been blinded and cast out as a beggar. Now a captive of the wicked Grand Vizier Jaffar he is cast into a dungeon where he meets Abu, the best thief in all Bagdad. Together they escape and set about a series of adventures that involve a Djinni in a bottle, a mechanical flying horse, an all-seeing magic jewel, a flying carpet and a beautiful princess.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
After the credits Chris Rock is shown playing Cheap Pete who asks a newspaper vendor how much a newspaper costs. When he finds out its too expensive he asks to pay 15 cents and for the vendor to read him the good news.

Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Russos water disappears and reappears between shots at the debriefing.

Trivia: There are 7 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Filming began in Britain, but because of the Blitz, the production relocated to Hollywood.
• Filmed at Londons Denham Studios, which had just merged with J. Arthur Ranks nearby Pinewood Studios.
• Producer Alexander Korda was so demanding that he went through six directors during the production of this film, including his brother Zoltan Korda and leading art director William Cameron Menzies.

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Category: Adventure
All Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Release Year: 1924
Country: USA
Runtime: 155
Rating: 2.5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Raoul Walsh
Sound: Silent
Taglines:

The great MGM musical romance

Writing by: Achmed Abdullah - screenwriter
Douglas Fairbanks - (story) (as Elton Thomas)
James T. ODonohoe - adaptation
Lotta Woods - writer

Produced by: Douglas Fairbanks - producer

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks - The Thief of Bagdad
Snitz Edwards - His Evil Associate
Charles Belcher - The Holy Man
Julanne Johnston - The Princess
Sojin - 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 - The Sworder (uncredited)
Winter Blossom - The Slave of the Lute (uncredited)

Music: Carl Davis
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Plot Outline: A thief falls in love with the Caliph of Bagdads daughter. The Caliph will give her hand to the suitor...
Plot: A thief falls in love with the Caliph of Bagdads daughter. The Caliph will give her hand to the suitor that brings back the rarest treasure after seven moons. The thief sets off on a magical journey while, unbeknownst to him, another suitor, the Prince of the Mongols, is not playing by the rules...

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
When the film ends, we suddenly see the credits scrolling up on a completely different movie screen, together with another completely different cinema audience of onlookers observing it before getting up and leaving one by one until the final onlookers stand up and walks to the left with the screen going black as he/she does so (implying that the real storyline was also yet another film within film).

Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Manuela and Serafin first meet near the sea, the seam of the backdrop is visible.

Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The Persian Prince is played by Mathilde Comont, a female.
• In some prints, Mathilde Comont is credited as M. Comont to keep her sex a secret. However, in several scenes in the film it is very obvious that the Persian Prince is being played by a woman.
• Douglas Fairbanks was inspired to make this film by an episode in Paul Lenis German film Wachsfigurenkabinett, Das (1924) (US title: "Waxworks").

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