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The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

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This is an extravagant Arabian Nights fantasy.

Jan 7, 1998

United Artists

All Critics (15) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (1) | DVD (2)

It is like reading the Arabian Nights at one sitting, with only six minutes allowed to stretch the limbs and get the contrast of a workaday world.

February 2, 2011 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
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Walsh's dynamism is evident in every frame of this deftly Americanized fantasy, beautifully designed by William Cameron Menzies.

October 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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Douglas Fairbanks is magnetic in this fun early adventure.

February 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Visually spectacular mix of adventure movie and fantasy.

July 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Classic Film and Television | Comment
Classic Film and Television

A visual extravaganza.

January 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The immense space -- both vertical and horizontal -- in this film finally seemed enough to contain Fairbanks' sheer gusto.

June 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

The film has a joyful sort of grandeur that's basically dead in the modern cinema.

December 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

Korda's version of 1940 has the quirks and the luscious colour, but this one has the electric energy.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Unprecedented special effects and sets… perhaps the first great achievement of cinematic epic mythopoeia, and the forerunner to the likes of The Lord of the Rings.

October 27, 2004 Full Review Source: Decent Films Guide | Comment
Decent Films Guide

Full of astounding effects way ahead of their time, this first screen version of the famous Arabian Nights fable is wonderfully extravagant.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

Fairbanks's splendid flourishes infect the whole cast.

February 4, 2003 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Not up to the 1940 version , but a treat

August 22, 2002 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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Audience Reviews for The Thief of Bagdad

The first half of the movie is a predictable romantic comedy type story, but it changes in the middle and gets exciting as the thief goes on an epic adventure to win the princess. This is a really long movie, a little too long, but it's got some really cool special effects in the second part and Fairbanks is awesome

December 21, 2010
ajv2688

Super Reviewer

silent "thief of bagdad" is raoul walsh's lush classic with original swashbuckler douglas fairbanks in the imaginatively turbulent exotic land of arab...it is intertwined with the bizarre outlandishness of persia, india, china as well as the essence of arab under intepretation of the primary stage of hollywood

November 29, 2007
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