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The Thief of Bagdad
Directed by
Raoul Walsh
Not Rated
1924
2h 26m
Adventure
,
Family
,
and more
7.7
97%
83%
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A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
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Cast of The Thief of Bagdad
Douglas Fairbanks
The Thief of Bagdad / Writer / Producer
Snitz Edwards
His Evil Associate
Charles Belcher
The Holy Man
Julanne Johnston
The Princess
Sôjin Kamiyama
The Mongol Prince
Anna May Wong
The Mongol Slave
Brandon Hurst
The Caliph
Tote Du Crow
The Soothsayer
Noble Johnson
The Indian Prince
Sam Baker
Sworder (uncredited)
Laska Winter
Slave of the Lute (uncredited)
Etta Lee
Slave of the Sand Board (uncredited)
Mathilde Comont
Persian Prince (uncredited)
Charles Stevens
Persian Prince's Awaker (uncredited)
Eugene Jackson
Child (uncredited)
Jesse Lasky Jr.
(uncredited)
David Sharpe
(uncredited)
Paul Malvern
Gigantic Bat (uncredited)
Scotty Mattraw
Eunuch (uncredited)
Jess Weldon
Eunuch (uncredited)
K. Nambu
Mongol Prince's Counselor (uncredited)
Raoul Walsh
Director
Achmed Abdullah
Writer
James T. O'Donohoe
Writer
Lotta Woods
Writer
The Thief of Bagdad Ratings & Reviews
Mister Arn
May 20, 2025
I'm sure this film was epic for its time, with marvelous costumes and sets. But judged against current films, I found it to be overlong and average.
Los Angeles Times
Edwin Schallert
Never its like has been seen before; never its like will be viewed again for many a day. It is the first and the last, the magical height and the iridescent depth of fantasy.
LIFE
Robert E. Sherwood
The Thief of Bagdad has a marvelous fairy tale quality -- a romantic sweep lifts the audience and vaporizes it into pink, fluffy clouds. It also has much beauty and much solidity of dramatic construction.
Christian Science Monitor
E.C. Sherburne
Anyone who saw the nimble Fairbanks in Robin Hood can imagine, in a degree, the exuberance with which he carries off all these astonishing adventures.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Martin Dickstein
[Anna May Wong] furnishes one of the outstanding personalities in this new Fairbanks film. So-Jin is splendid... and Snitz Edwards, as the evil associate of The Thief, is also deserving of much credit for his very effective interpretation of the role.
Buffalo News
Gladys Hall (Junius)
One doesn't have a professional mind when one sees The Thief of Bagdad. For one is a child again, believing in the thing one sees.
Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles)
L.B. Fowler
It may be said without any exaggeration that The Thief of Bagdad is the greatest cinema of its kind ever to be projected on the silver screen; a truly colossal effort founded and produced upon pure entertainment principles.
Sacramento Bee
Darwin J. Smith
Douglas Fairbanks as the thief Is the same Douglas Fairbanks of his former pictures This picture however calls for a fantastic sort of playing which Fairbanks measures up to.
Variety
Jack Pulaski
Fairbanks as the thief gives a corking performance... Anna May Wong... proved herself to be a fine actress.
Detroit Free Press
Freep Staff
Not even Baron Munchausen ever dreamed such a fairy tale as is unfolded in this gorgeous romance.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Post-Dispatch Staff
It is like nothing that has ever come to the screen... it marks a big advance in settings lighting, photography, and appeal to the imagination.
New York Post
New York Post Staff
Once again, Douglas Fairbanks -- for it is his new production -- has taken a decided step forward in showing what can be done with intelligence and a camera.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Inquirer Staff
The photography of the picture is remarkable. The tricks of the camera were never better utilized than in the travels of the magic carpet and the winged horse and in showing Fairbanks' descent into the sea.
Boston Globe
Globe Staff
One can scarcely find enough adjectives in the dictionary to describe properly the hauntingly beautiful, thrilling, magnificent Thief of Bagdad.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES? THEN -- You'll believe in The Thief of Bagdad -- take it to your hearts and say it's a great picture. It IS well acted and -- TURKISH COFFEE IS SERVED IN INTERMISSIONS.
New York Daily News
Mabel McElliott
The Thief of Bagdad is a film which will exhaust fans' superlatives for some time to come. The flying carpet particularly makes childish dreams come true.
New York Times
Mordaunt Hall
It is an entrancing picture, wholesome and beautiful, deliberate but compelling, a feat of motion picture art which has never been equaled and one which itself will enthrall persons time and again.
Film Comment Magazine
Meredith Slifkin
The film's 149-minute running time might test the patience of even the most devout silent film fan, but the decadent costumes, elaborate sets, and Fairbanks's copious talents provide more than enough baroque pleasure to pass the time.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
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.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Walsh's dynamism is evident in every frame of this deftly Americanized fantasy, beautifully designed by William Cameron Menzies.
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