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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.
Prior to The Thief of Bagdad, set designs and décor in major films like D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) were a tasteful mixture at best and in most cases a jumble. Menzies’s sets for The Thief of Bagdad created an ethereal world of its own, with cast and setting melded in rhythm and motion.
May 4, 2024 · When British producer Alexander Korda set out to remake Raoul Walsh’s silent epic The Thief of Bagdad (1924), his intention was not fidelity to the original. Itself a free adaptation of the One Thousand and One Nights folk tales, Walsh’s film truly cemented star and producer Douglas Fairbanks’ screen persona as the swashbuckling ...
The Thief of Bagdad is a 1940 British Technicolor historical fantasy film, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan, with additional contributions by William Cameron Menzies and Korda brothers Vincent and Zoltán.
May 15, 2019 · On a wall in Beirut's Dar El-Nimer gallery, a Czech-language poster for the 1978 film Thief of Baghdad takes inspiration from Ottoman miniatures. Before a stylised blue, white and green...
Nov 30, 2015 · Menzies first came on the Hollywood scene with the 1923 original The Thief of Bagdad. “Design influenced every aspect of the film–acting, writing, direction, cinematography,” Curtis...
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Sep 20, 2017 · Menzies did not simply design exotic, pictorially pleasing sets. The Bagdad of which Ahmed is the apparent master is a moral space, his thievery a moral act. The dizzying, vertical sets embody and ensure a despotic hierarchy where life is cheap and everyone must know their place.
