Mar 7th
The Thief of Bagdad**
(US 1924)
126m. bw. silent
An agile thief wins the hand of the Caliph's daughter as well as defending the city from a Mongol invasion.
Lavish Fairbanks fantasy in which much of the interest and imagination is to be found in the latter half of the film.
Written by: Achmed Abdullah, Lotta Woods, Douglas Fairbanks.
Producer: Douglas Fairbanks.
Director: Raoul Walsh.
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Julianne Johnston, Snitz Edwards, Sojin Kaniyama, Charles Belcher, Anna May Wong, Brandon Hurst, Noble Johnson.
Photography: Arthur Edeson.
Production Design: William Cameron Menzies.
Music Composer/Conductor: Carl Davis.
Preceded by:
The New Cardinal*
(Czech 2024. 10m.; Identical twin brothers, one a priest and the other a strip club owner, come to terms with each other's role in life.; w, d: Matej Stepan; s: Scott Sophos, Diana Dulinkova. ph: Ales Svoboda.)