Thief of Bagdad (1924)

Description

The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American swashbuckler film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks. 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 Bagdad. 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”.

Cast

• Douglas Fairbanks as Ahmed, the Thief of Bagdad
• Snitz Edwards as His Evil Associate
• Charles Belcher as The Holy Man (Imam) / Narrator
• Julanne Johnston as The Princess. Johnston had appeared the previous year in another Arabian Nights fantasy, the now lost The Brass Bottle, directed by Maurice Tourneur
• Sojin Kamiyama as Cham Shang, Prince of the Mongols
• Anna May Wong as The Mongol Slave
• Brandon Hurst as The Caliph
• Tote Du Crow as The Soothsayer
• Noble Johnson as The Prince of the Indies
• Mathilde Comont as The Prince of Persia (uncredited)
• Sam Baker as The Sworder
• Sadakichi Hartmann as The Court Magician (uncredited)
• Laska Winter as Slave of the Lute (uncredited)

The eccentric Second World War soldier Jack Churchill had an uncredited part, as did blues musician Jesse Fuller.