He then returns to Bagdad with the Princess.Ību awakes on a deserted beach. Returning to Basra, Jaffar uses a mechanical dancer to kill the Princess's father. Jaffar prevents the two from following him by raising a storm that shipwrecks them. She submits and the spells are lifted from both Ahmad and Abu. Jaffar tells her that she can cure Ahmad's blindness only by allowing Jaffar to embrace her. The Princess is tricked into boarding a ship. He is then dismissed with the dog to the city's docks, where he concludes his story. Halima, Jaffar's minion, tricks Ahmad into awakening the Princess. At the palace, though, she falls into a deep sleep and cannot be awakened. She is captured for the slave market and is bought by Jaffar's agent. The Princess, now in love with Ahmad, runs away, but Jaffar put a spell on Ahmad and Abu, blinding the former and turning the latter into a dog. Jaffar, a powerful sorcerer, provides the toy-obsessed Sultan of Basra with a mechanical flying horse in exchange for the promise of marriage to his daughter. Jaffar, however, also journeys to Basra, intent on having the Princess for himself. They flee to Basra, where Ahmad meets and falls in love with the Princess. In prison, Ahmad meets the young thief Abu, who arranges their escape. Jaffar then has him arrested and usurps the throne. Wanting to know more about his people, Ahmad is tricked by Jaffar, his evil Grand Vizier, into going in disguise into the city. In ancient Basra, a blind, young beggar begins telling the film's story in flashback (mimicking the style of the Arabian Nights), revealing that he is really Ahmad, the young, naive king of Bagdad. The screenplay is by Lajos Biro and Miles Malleson, who also appears in the film as the Princess's father, the Sultan of Basra. Īlthough this production is a remake of the 1924 version, the two films have differences, the most significant being that the thief and the prince are separate characters in this version. Miklós Rózsa was also nominated for Original Music Score, a first for a British film at the Academy Awards. Butler and Jack Whitney for Special Effects (marking the first use of the "manual bluescreen technique" ). Georges Périnal, credited as George Perinal, won the Academy Award for Cinematography, Vincent Korda for Art Direction, and Lawrence W. It was released in the US and the UK by United Artists.Īlthough produced by Alexander Korda's company London Films in London, the film was completed in California due to the outbreak of World War II. The film stars teen actor Sabu, Conrad Veidt, John Justin, and June Duprez. 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.
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