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| Douglas Fairbanks | ... | The Thief of Bagdad | |
| Snitz Edwards | ... | His Evil Associate | |
| Charles Belcher | ... | The Holy Man | |
| Julanne Johnston | ... | The Princess | |
| Sojin | ... | The Mongol Prince | |
| Anna May Wong | ... | The Mongol Slave | |
| Brandon Hurst | ... | The Caliph | |
| Tote Du Crow | ... | The Soothsayer | |
| Noble Johnson | ... | The Indian Prince | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Sam Baker | ... | The Sworder (uncredited) | |
| Winter Blossom | ... | The Slave of the Lute (uncredited) | |
| Mathilde Comont | ... | The Persian Prince (uncredited) | |
| Jesse Fuller | ... | Undetermined Role (uncredited) | |
| Sadakichi Hartmann | ... | His Court Magician (uncredited) | |
| Jesse Lasky Jr. | ... | Undetermined Role (uncredited) | |
| Etta Lee | ... | The Slave of the Sand Board (uncredited) | |
| Scotty Mattraw | ... | Eunuch (uncredited) | |
| K. Nambu | ... | His Counselor (uncredited) | |
| Jack Parker | ... | Child (uncredited) | |
| David Sharpe | ... | Bit (uncredited) | |
| Charles Stevens | ... | His Awaker (uncredited) | |
| Charles Sylvester | ... | Eunuch (uncredited) | |
| Jess Weldon | ... | Eunuch (uncredited) | |
Directed by | |||
| Raoul Walsh | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Achmed Abdullah | screenwriter | |
| Douglas Fairbanks | (story) (as Elton Thomas) | |
| James T. O'Donohoe | adaptation | |
| Lotta Woods | writer | |
Produced by | |||
| Douglas Fairbanks | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Carl Davis | (1984) | ||
Cinematography by | |||
| Arthur Edeson | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| William Nolan | |||
Production Design by | |||
| William Cameron Menzies | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| William Cameron Menzies | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Mitchell Leisen | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| George Westmore | .... | makeup artist | |
Production Management | |||
| Theodore Reed | .... | production manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| James T. O'Donohoe | .... | assistant director | |
Art Department | |||
| Park French | .... | associate artist | |
| Harold Grieve | .... | associate artist | |
| Anton Grot | .... | associate artist | |
| H.R. Hopps | .... | associate artist | |
| Edward M. Langley | .... | associate artist | |
| Irvin J. Martin | .... | consulting art director | |
| William Utwich | .... | associate artist | |
| Paul Youngblood | .... | associate artist | |
| Paul Burns | .... | property master (uncredited) | |
Special Effects by | |||
| Hampton Del Ruth | .... | mechanical effects | |
| Hampton Del Ruth | .... | special effects | |
| Coy Watson Sr. | .... | mechanical effects | |
| Coy Watson Sr. | .... | special effects | |
Stunts | |||
| David Sharpe | .... | stunts (uncredited) | |
| Jack Stoney | .... | stunts (uncredited) | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Kenneth Gordon MacLean | .... | assistant camera (uncredited) | |
| Charles Warrington | .... | still photographer (uncredited) | |
| Albert Wayne | .... | master electrician (uncredited) | |
| Phil Whitman | .... | assistant camera (uncredited) | |
Costume and Wardrobe Department | |||
| Paul Burns | .... | wardrobe supervisor (uncredited) | |
Music Department | |||
| David Cullen | .... | orchestrator: Carl Davis | |
| Carl Davis | .... | music adaptor: Rimsky-Korsakov | |
| Carl Davis | .... | orchestrator: new score | |
Other crew | |||
| Robert Fairbanks | .... | technical director | |
| Edward Knoblock | .... | technical advisor | |
| Arthur Woods | .... | researcher | |
| Arthur Woods | .... | technical advisor | |
| Edward Knoblock | .... | consultant (uncredited) | |
| Howard MacChesney | .... | technical crew (uncredited) | |
| Clinton Newman | .... | technical crew (uncredited) | |
| Walter Pallman | .... | technical crew (uncredited) | |
| J.C. Watson | .... | technical crew (uncredited) | |
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This movie is great fun to watch, like you would expect from a genre movie such as this one. It has all the typical adventurous, action and comedy elements present to make this a great swashbuckling movie. Add to that Douglas Fairbanks in good shape and you have a classic unforgettable genre movie!
Douglas Fairbanks is totally great in this one. He looks, acts, breaths, eats like a real superstar. He handles all of the athletic action in the movie really well. It's not hard to see why this man was THE swashbuckling hero of the '20's.
The movie is really great looking, with many grand looking sets. Really great looking stuff! (though obviously all fake.) Something you would normally expect to see in a D.W. Griffith movie. The movie also has some silly looking but yet great early special effects, toward the ending of the movie.
The story has all the ingredients needed for such a genre movie as this one; an heroic main character, a love interest, stereotypical villains and lots of fun and action. Especially toward the ending the movie starts to become greatly adventurous after a sort of slower middle and good first part. It's of course all rather simple and formulaic but this is also what makes the genre so great. You just always know what to expect. It's good simple fun that's professionally and well made, that's also beautiful to look at.
Also definitely fun to see how much of this movie was later used again in Disney's "Aladdin". Some, mostly action sequences, are obviously almost directly copied.
A great fun movie, from swashbuckling-specialist director Raoul Walsh.
9/10