The Thief of Bagdad (1924 film)
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.
Ahmed Douglas Fairbanks robs as he pleases in the city of Baghdad. Wandering into a mosque, he tells the holy man Charles Belcher he disdains his religion his philosophy is, What I want, I take.That night, he sneaks into the palace of the caliph Brandon Hurst using a magic rope he stole during ritual prayers. All thoughts of plunder are forgotten when he sees the sleeping princess Julanne Johnston, the caliphs daughter. The princesss Mongol slave Anna May Wong discovers him and alerts the guards, but he gets away. ........
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