US news, world news, crime news. Todays top breaking news and current events. The Mongol slave tells her countryman of the prophecy, but before he can touch the rose-tree, Ahmed's startled horse tosses its rider into it. They discover that she is near death, and ride the flying carpet to reach her. Another of the princess's slaves foretells that she will marry the man who first touches a rose-tree in her garden. Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance writes, "An epic romantic fantasy-adventure inspired by several of the Arabian Nights tales, The Thief of Bagdad is the greatest artistic triumph of Fairbanks's career. [12] Like the sultan of the earlier film, Disney's Sultan is obsessed with toys. [5] Along with his earlier Robin Hood (1922), the film marked Fairbanks's transformation from genial comedy to a career in "swashbuckling" roles. M.F. Emams latest film was Les Baghdad'' ( Baghdad Thief) which was released on January 22, 2020 and acheived huge success. This technique has since become the standard process for separating screen elements and/or actors from their backgrounds and placing them on new backgrounds for special effects purposes, and has since been used in thousands of films. Larry Butler invented the first proper chroma key process for the special effects scenes in this film, a variation on the existing "traveling matte" process. Then the Mongol uses the apple to cure her. The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American silent swashbuckler film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, and written by Achmed Abdullah and Lotta Woods.Freely adapted from One Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad. [15] A television series, Thief of Baghdad, was also made in India which aired on Zee TV between 20002001. That night, he sneaks into the palace of the caliph using a magic rope he stole during ritual prayers. For CIMA, the Summer Show is like a summary of the years exhibitions. In prison, Ahmad meets the young thief Abu, who arranges their escape. Although this production is a remake of the 1924 version, the two films have differences: the most significant is that the thief and the prince are separate characters in the 1940 version. [1] The film was also a success in Europe, selling 5,135,145 tickets in France and becoming the seventh most attended film of the year. [16] Kino International reissued the DVD in 2004, this time with a longer, improved print and chamber ensemble score. [18] That version features a Carl Davis orchestral score and an audio commentary by Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance. The princess's Mongol slave discovers him and alerts the guards, but he gets away. The Baghdad of Townshend's time was actually a run-down, impoverished provincial city in the Ottoman Empire. It has been released on Region B-locked Blu-rays in Germany (Anolis Entertainment, 2012) and the UK (Network Distributing, 2015). Directed by Raoul Walsh. Korda had intended to cast Vivien Leigh as the Princess, but she went to Hollywood to be with Laurence Olivier.[6]. It was released in the US and the UK by United Artists. [10], Fairbanks sought to make an epic. He is then dismissed with the dog to the city's docks, where he concludes his story. Bakerys 'creative' ploy to catch alleged thief. A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess. They flee to Basra, where Ahmad meets and falls in love with the Princess.