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	The Thief of Bagdad
		Among the papers and recordings in the Miklós Rózsa collection at the George Arents Research Library of Syracuse University is music manuscript from THE THIEF OF This music is fascinating and provides a glimpse—albeit a murky one—of an unseen side of the classic Korda film.
		We don’t know why Rózsa had this particular grab bag of material from THE THIEF OF BAGDAD in his possession, but since the onion skin masters for the concert suite are among the collection, it is possible that he acquired the sketches when preparing the suite for recording in the mid-1950s.
		Because of the large number of songs that Rózsa composed, one must assume that the original concept of the film was very different from the final picture that is now considered one of the finest classic fantasy films of all time.
	members.cox.net /filmusic (407 words)

	CJOnline.com \| The Topeka Capital-Journal \| Riding a musical magical carpet 02/28/03
		Therefore, some of the music the audience will hear during "The Thief of Bagdad" will be the same as audiences heard when it was first shown nearly 80 years ago.
		And all of the music Mont Alto will play during "The Thief of Bagdad" was available to accompanists at the time the film opened.
		Fairbanks, who was the producer of "The Thief of Bagdad" and director Raoul Walsh, "went over the top with the special effects," Sauer said.
	www.cjonline.com /stories/022803/wee_bagdad.shtml (1028 words)

	Thief of Bagdad
		The Thief of Bagdad was his first major film as a director, a job he got because he ran and boxed with the athletic Fairbanks.
		Julanne Johnston, the decorative heroine of The Thief of Bagdad, was a member of Ruth St. Denis' modern dance troupe.
		The minarets reflected in the shining streets of Bagdad, the princess's bedroom with its staircase sweeping round the domed and canopied bed, the giant's cavern, the dragon's lair and the superbly excecuted glass shots of the under sea scenes are brilliantly concieved.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDThiefofBagdad.htm (2042 words)

	Amazon.ca: Thief Of Bagdad (1924): DVD: Raoul Walsh,Douglas Fairbanks,Snitz Edwards,Charles Belcher,Julanne ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Swaggering through massive marketplace sets and cavernous throne rooms as an incorrigible thief and pickpocket, he scales towering walls (with the help of a magic rope) and leads a merry chase through crowded bazaars in his pursuit of loot--until he falls in love with the beautiful princess and vows to win her heart.
		Thief of Baghdad, with its look of unrealistic beauty (courtesy of art director William Cameron Menzies), was not fully appreciated in its day.
		Douglas Fairbanks' "The Thief of Bagdad" is in the public domain, so it's no surprise that there are many DVD and VHS versions of this film available, from bargain basement tapes with no music taken from battered source prints, to high-quality editions with fine music and extras.
	www.amazon.ca /Thief-Bagdad-Raoul-Walsh/dp/B00000FE8Y (1370 words)

	VEIDT VILLAINIES: The Thief of Bagdad
		That night, the thief of Bagdad is brought into the dungeon, kicking and screaming and begging for mercy, and under the cover of all this removing the key to the door from one of the jailers.
		The thief's exuberance and enjoyment of life are not quenched, despite the fact that they haven't had anything to eat for a day.
		Jaffar, the new sultan of Bagdad, arrives in Basra and is greeted warmly by its elderly, portly, cheerful ruler.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Studio/7624/alltext/Bagdad.html (2552 words)

	The Thief Of Bagdad Movie, Review, Cast for The Thief Of Bagdad \| TVGuide.com
		In 1924, at the height of his popularity, Douglas Fairbanks released THE THIEF OF BAGDAD, "an Arabian Nights Fantasy" (with a Christian slant) that was and still is one of the most lavishly beautiful films ever made.
		In the streets of "Bagdad" roams a high-spirited thief (Douglas Fairbanks) who believes in neither work nor Allah.
		There are no group posts for The Thief Of Bagdad.
	www.tvguide.com /detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=132141 (186 words)

	Amazon.com: The Thief of Bagdad: DVD: Douglas Fairbanks,Snitz Edwards,Charles Belcher,Julanne Johnston,Sojin,Anna May ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The thief sets off on a magical journey while, unbeknownst to him, another suitor, the Prince of the Mongols, is not playing by the rules...
		As with all good epics, the thief on a fantastic storybook return "there and back again" to the bottom of the sea, haunted by sirens as well as giant spiders, to the space above the clouds, where Fairbanks discovers the home of the winged horse and the sanctuary of the moon.
		Perhaps because I was first exposed to the 1940 color version of THE THIEF OF BAGDAD as a kid, and perhaps, sadly, because most of us are too young to remember, or have not seen many of the great silent epics--I prefer the 1940 Korda version.
	www.amazon.com /Thief-Bagdad-Douglas-Fairbanks/dp/B00000FE8Y (2684 words)

	The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Yet The Thief of Bagdad’s blend of Arabian Nights magic, storybook romance, mythopoeic fantasy travelogue, and sense of wonder and fun is incalculably more entertaining and joyous than even the best moments of Griffith’s muddled melodrama.
		Though at first the thief is a cheerful infidel who believes only in taking what he wants, the path to redemption begins when he falls in love with the caliph’s royal daughter (Julanne Johnston).
		The ensuing pilgrimage takes the thief on a fantastic storybook odyssey ranging from the depths of the sea, haunted by sirens and giant spiders, to the world above the clouds, where he finds the abode of the winged horse and the citadel of the moon.
	decentfilms.com /sections/reviews/1780 (331 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		There is no question in my mind that THE THIEF OF BAGDAD ($15) is one of the greatest fantasy films of all time- it also ranks as one of the most gorgeous British Technicolor movies ever made and it did win an Academy Award for Georges Périnal's exquisite cinematography.
		THE THIEF OF BAGDAD is adapted from The Arabian Nights and tells of a King named Ahmad (John Justin), who is tricked by his Grand Vizier Jaffar (Conrad Veidt) into relinquishing his throne.
		Forming a fast friendship, Ahmad and Abu are able to escape from prison and make their way to the Kingdom of Basra where they encounter the toy loving Sultan (Miles Malleson) and his beautiful daughter.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_review_2002/thief-of-bagdad-dvd.htm (615 words)

	TheRaider.net - Indiana Jones' Influences: Classic Adventures
		When she eventually picks him however, he is so overcome with love that he reveals his identity as thief and suffers public flogging.
		Indy is in fact a descendent of all Fairbanks’ adventure roles in that he is a character of great physicality (flying through the air with the use of a whip, climbing out of the ocean onto a submarine, leaping from horse to truck, etc.).
		They are all brilliant but The Thief of Bagdad is the most imaginative and wondrous of them all.
	www.theraider.net /information/influences/thief_bagdad.php (859 words)

	The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
		The beggar claims that he is Ahmed, the prince of Bagdad.
		He tells how, upon the advice of his vizier Jaffer, he went out into the marketplace in disguise to see what his people thought of him — only to be double-crossed by Jaffer, who then had him arrested and thrown into jail, saying he was mad for claiming to be the prince.
		In fact, this version of the film splits the Fairbanks role in two — with the young Sabu inheriting the thief half, and the romantic element being carried by the impossibly handsome John Justin.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/thief40.htm (1035 words)

	Thief of Bagdad
		A thief in medieval Baghdad (Douglas Fairbanks) acquires a magic rope and uses it to enter the Caliph's palace, where he meets and falls in love with a princess.
		While it is burdened with the odd distracting fault, Raoul Walsh's The Thief of Bagdad is, generally, a delightful and engaging movie that is both visually intriguing and filled with a variety of exciting and magical adventures.
		His fight with a dragon is truly enthralling, as are his journey to the bottom of the sea and the concluding battle sequence in which he conjures a magical army to fight that of the Mongols.
	www.movierapture.com /thiefofbagdad.htm (497 words)

	The Thunder Child: The Making of The Thief of Bagdad
		The Thief of Bagdad was more than a year and a half in the making, and much like The Wizard of Oz, is famous for the amount of directors it went through before its technicolor brilliance finally hit the big screens, in both England and the United States, on the same day, December 25, 1940.
		The original Thief of Bagdad had been a spectacular vehicle for Douglas Fairbanks Senior in 1924...[Alexander] Korda intended his version to be quite different - and indeed he stood little chance of matching the immense exterior sets and thousands of extras deployed by Fairbanks.
		The filming of The Thief of Bagdad was a rather disorganized affair, thanks to Alexander Korda.
	thethunderchild.com /Movies/Fantasies/ThiefofBagdad/MakingBagdad.html (1323 words)

	The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
		It might seem strange at first that a prestigious, successful film like The Thief of Bagdad would not have received the talkie remake treatment to which so many other silent hits were subjected in the early 1930’s.
		One of the problems with the old Thief of Bagdad was that there was way too much going on for it to have much chance of coming together into a coherent whole.
		The irony was that it was precisely Ahmad’s habitual seclusion that enabled the usurpation to succeed, for few people in Baghdad had ever seen the king with their own eyes, and it was an easy matter for Jafar to circulate the story that Ahmad had died suddenly in the night.
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsn-z/thiefofbagdad1940.htm (2094 words)

	Silent Era : DVD : The Thief of Bagdad (1924) Review
		The Thief of Bagdad (1924), fl and white, 154 minutes, not rated.
		The Thief of Bagdad (1924), fl and white, 139 minutes, not rated.
		This disc should not be your first experience of The Thief of Bagdad, since the film has survived in very good to excellent 35mm prints that have been utilized for other home video editions (notably the out-of-print HBO Video laserdisc and VHS editions).
	www.silentera.com /DVD/thiefofBagdadDVD.html (882 words)

	The Thief Of Bagdad
		The Thief Of Bagdad is a tale that has been told many times in many ways.
		Ahmad (John Justin) is the King of Bagdad [yay, yippee, hurrah].
		The Thief Of Bagdad is a most enjoyable melodramatic romp through the Arabian Nights theme.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/ThiefOfBagdad.asp (894 words)

	Miklós Rózsa and The Thief of Bagdad
		On my return to London I wrote and told him of the problems I was having with The Thief of Bagdad - this was before I had become the one and only composer working on the film.
		Somehow the foreign press got wind of the fact that he was writing the lyrics for The Thief of Bagdad.
		I had fought so hard to write the music for The Thief of Bagdad, and if I didn't go to America now it would be finished by someone else, which was the last thing I wanted.
	www.powell-pressburger.org /Reviews/40_Thief/Thief06.html (4945 words)

	The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1940 film version of The Thief of Bagdad is notable for its use of Technicolor and its special effects, which were impressive for the time and have held up far longer than those in contemporary cinema.
		The Thief of Bagdad was produced by Alexander Korda's company London Films in England, but due to the outbreak of World War II filming was completed in California in the United States.
		The most notable is that in the 1940 version the thief and the prince are separate characters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Thief_of_Bagdad_(1940_film) (361 words)

	AMCTV.com SHOW - The Thief of Bagdad 1940
		This retelling of tales from The Arabian Nights was one of Britain's biggest screen successes of the 1940s.
		Abu, a street urchin convicted of theft, is thrown into a Bagdad prison where he meets Prince Ahmad, the ruler of the realm who has been overthrown by his confederate, Jaffar.
		The two escape and flee to the city of Basra where they see a beautiful princess who captivates Ahmad's heart.
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=6816-1-1 (92 words)

	Amazon.com: Thief of Bagdad (1940): DVD: Conrad Veidt,Sabu,June Duprez,John Justin,Rex Ingram,Miles Malleson,Morton ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In figurative terms it means if there are too many people working on a project, the result will be inferior...given the fact The Thief of Bagdad (1940) sports six directors, three credited, three uncredited, you'd think the film would be a mess, but it's actually the very opposite.
		Well, keep in mind Jaffar is not only a scoundrel, but a magical scoundrel, and he has no intention of losing what he has worked so little for...actually, his plans appeared pretty complex, almost to the point of being convoluted, so it was obvious he had been planning it for awhile.
		The Thief of Bagdad was made in 1940 and was very likely a special effects triumph for that era.
	www.amazon.com /Thief-Bagdad-Dub-Conrad-Veidt/dp/B00006L931 (1845 words)

	The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
		Indeed, the earliest of the bunch appears to have been the 1924 version of The Thief of Bagdad, written and produced by Douglas Fairbanks for United Artists.
		Whatever else you may say about it, The Thief of Bagdad is an often gorgeous film that realizes a fair percentage of its extravagant visual ambitions.
		There is an unfortunate side to The Thief of Bagdad’s emphasis on images of the strange and wondrous, however; the film has a pronounced tendency to wander, and never manages to accumulate much momentum.
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsn-z/thiefofbagdad1924.htm (1711 words)

	The Fahey Files - John Fahey - The Thief of Bagdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It was a pleasant pastime." At age 61 he took this to the public when he scored The Thief of Bagdad for the Red76 Silent Film Festival.
		The Not the Gas Station Tape, discovered (but misidentified as The Gas Station Tape) by David Gardner, contained a fragment of the 1940 film soundtrack, referred to in the Requia liner notes.
		Tonight, it's John Fahey, playing a live improv score to the silent film The Thief of Bagdad.
	www.johnfahey.com /pages/thief.html (375 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Thief of Bagdad
		A visual and sonic swirl of 1001 delights, The Thief of Bagdad is not a remake of the silent Fairbanks film, but an entire rewrite from the pen of Miles Malleson, who we know better as a familiar character actor in dozens of English classics.
		The maturity of The Thief of Bagdad lies in its lack of dull moralizing: the world is full of thieves of all kinds, and the story sees no harm in the enterprise of the dispossessed.
		The latter manages to be a slyly incisive commentary on the glories and pitfalls of empire-building and colonialism, while never losing sight that it must sell itself as a spectacular adventure tale (at which it succeeds superbly).
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s666bagdad.html (2102 words)

	The Thief of Bagdad \| Plot \| MTV Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		This Technicolor Arabian Nights extravaganza is widely regarded as one of the best (if not the best) fantasy films of the pre-computer technology era.
		The genie intends to crush Abu to death, but the wily thief tricks him back into the bottle.
		In exchange for his freedom, the genie agrees to grant Abu three wishes....and at this point, the film really begins to percolate, what with that "All Seeing Eye" gem, golden arrow and magic carpet added to the formula.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/35149/plot.jhtml (757 words)

	eBay - Product Info - eBay — The Thief of Bagdad, VHS and NR items on eBay.com. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		A wondrous, fantastic adventure, THE THIEF OF BAGDAD showcases the talents of Fairbanks--the first and greatest of film swashbucklers.
		With the help of a magic rope and a magic carpet, the hero woos a beautiful princess and faces many mortal dangers, including fierce dragons, blazing fires, and swelling waters, in his quest to prove himself worthy of her love.
		THE THIEF OF BAGDAD was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1996.
	product.ebay.com /The-Thief-of-Bagdad_W0QQfvcsZ1178QQsoprZ3149263 (359 words)

	The Thief Of Bagdad DVD Review
		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents “The Thief Of Bagdad” in the original theatrical release format of approximately (1.33:1).
		After screening this DVD I am not sure whether or not this film was digitally mastered from the best materials possible because at points the image yields a very fine bit of compression grain while other scenes look a bit soft.
		Aside from the full screen theatrical trailer (2:40) there are no other extra features on this DVD though one can appreciate just how good “The Thief Of Bagdad” does look despite any faults on DVD after seeing the trailer, which has frayed with age.
	www.genreonline.net /Thief_Bagdad_DVD.html (631 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Thief Of Bagdad [1925]: DVD: Douglas Fairbanks,Snitz Edwards,Charles Belcher,Julanne ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Dating from 1924 this Thief of Bagdad is justifiably billed here as "one of the truly great silent films of the 1920s." As the forerunner of generations of magical, effect-laden fantasy epics, its importance is practically immeasurable.
		On the DVD: The Thief of Bagdad disc presents the restored and remastered print (the tints have a luminous quality) complete with a 1975 score by master organist Gaylord Carter--you can almost feel the Wurlitzer rising from the pit of your entertainment centre.
		The audio essay, written by film historian R Dixon Smith, is an invaluable extra, providing essential information on how the picture was made and how the art designers played with proportion to create many of the visual tricks and a fantastical atmosphere.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Thief-Bagdad-Douglas-Fairbanks/dp/B00005UWQ4 (1332 words)

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