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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. The film stars Conrad Veidt, Indian-born teen actor Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, and Rex Ingram. It was released in the US and the UK by United Artists.
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Film technology never experienced such rapid and far‑reaching progress as in the period between the mid‑1920s and the late 1930s. Nothing can illustrate this achievement better than *The Thief of Bagdad*, the 1924 epic fantasy adventure and one of the greatest films of the silent era, when it is compared with its eponymous 1940 British remake, which provided audiences not only with sound but also with colour. Like i…More