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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Thief_of_Bagdad_(1924The Thief of Bagdad (1924 film) - Wikipedia

    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.

  3. www.imdb.com › title › tt0015400The Thief of Bagdad (1924) - IMDb

    The Thief of Bagdad: Directed by Raoul Walsh. With Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston. A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

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    • Adventure, Family, Fantasy
    • Raoul Walsh
    • 1924-04-11

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  5. www.britannica.com › topic › The-Thief-of-BagdadThe Thief of Bagdad | Silent film, Douglas Fairbanks, Arabian ...

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    The Thief of Bagdad, American silent swashbuckling film, released in 1924, that cemented Douglas Fairbanks’s reputation as a matinee idol.

    (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.)

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    •Studio: Douglas Fairbanks Pictures

    •Director: Raoul Walsh

    •Producer: Douglas Fairbanks

    •Writers: Douglas Fairbanks, James T. O’Donohoe, and Lotta Woods

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    •Douglas Fairbanks (The Thief)

    •Snitz Edwards (The Thief’s Associate)

    •Charles Belcher (The Holy Man)

    •Julanne Johnston (The Princess)

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    • Lee Pfeiffer

  6. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › the-thief-of-bagdad-1940One of the most delightful fantasies ever put on film

    May 6, 2009 · The story is loosely borrowed from Douglas Fairbanks Sr.’s “The Thief of Bagdad” (1924), itself a great film. Fairbanks Jr. told me it was his father’s favorite. One major change is crucial: In the silent film, the thief and the romantic lead were one and the same, played by Fairbanks.

  7. www.youtube.com › watchDouglas Fairbanks in "The Thief of Bagdad" (1924) - YouTube

    The story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad is the stuff of fairy tales.Writer-producer-star Douglas Fairbanks Sr. took...

  8. www.altfg.com › the-thief-of-bagdad-1924The Thief of Bagdad: Douglas Fairbanks’ Restored Fantasy ...

    As part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Douglas Fairbanks celebration, a fully restored print of the silent film version of The Thief of Bagdad (1924) will be screened on Dec. 15, at 7 p.m., at the Academy Theater in New York City.

  9. silentfilm.org › the-thief-of-bagdadThe Thief of Bagdad - Silent Film

    An epic fantasy-spectacle inspired by The Arabian Nights, The Thief of Bagdad is Douglas Fairbanks’s masterpiece. The superb visual design, spectacle, and special effects, along with his magnetic performance, all contribute to making it his greatest work.