The Thief of Bagdad
(1940) England
Color : 106 minutes
Directed by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan
Cast: Conrad Veidt [Jaffar], Sabu [Abu], June Duprez [the princess], John Justin [Ahmad], Rex Ingram [the djinn], Miles Malleson [the sultan], Morton Selten [the old king], Mary Morris [Halima], Bruce Winston [the merchant], Hay Petrie [the astrologer], Adelaide Hall [the singer], Roy Emerton [the jailer], Allan Jeayes [the story teller], Robert Greig [a man of Basra], Glynis Johns [the princess’ maid], Tao Porchon [the golden idol], Joseph Cozier [a fish peddler], John Salew [a fish peddler], Alexander Laine [an urchin in the Bagdad market], Cleo Laine [an urchin in the Bagdad market], Sylvia Laine [an urchin in the Bagdad market], Leslie Phillips [an urchin in the Bagdad market], Mark Stone [Masrur], Toni Gable [a lady], Joe Bacon [a palace guard], Noble Blake [a palace guard], Elias English [a palace guard], Dock McGill [a palace guard], Morgan Roberts [a palace guard], Henry Washington [a palace guard], Willie Williams [a palace guard], Henry Hallatt [a citizen], Miki Hood [a citizen], Frank Tickle [a citizen], Ben Williams [a citizen], Chick Alexander, Frederick Burtwell, Mad Jack Churchill, Spoli Mills, Norman Pierce, Otto Wallen
[?] Alexander Korda Films and/or London Film Productions? production. / Produced by Alexander Korda. Screenplay by Miles Malleson and Lajos Biró, with dialogue by Miles Malleson, from a screen story by Miklós Rózsa. Production management by David B. Cunynghame. Production assistant, André de Toth. Production design by Vincent Korda. Associate art directors, William Cameron Menzies, Ferdinand Bellan, W. Percy Day and Frederick Pusey. Costume design by John Armstrong, Oliver Messel and Marcel Vertès. Costume jeweler, Eugene Joseff. Dance instructor, Wendy Toye. Fight choreography by Ralph Faulkner. Makeup artists, Stuart Freeborn, Norbert A. Myles and Guy Pearce. Makeup assistant, Tom Shenton. Chief electrician, Bill Wall. Assistant director, Jack Clayton. Associate directors, Geoffrey Boothby and Charles David. Cinematography by Georges Périnal. Camera operators, Robert Krasker and Henty Henty-Creer (exteriors). Technicolor consultant, Natalie Kalmus. Technicolor camera assistant, Cliff Shirpser. Camera assistant, Peter Hopkinson. Sound director, A.W. Watkins. Sound assistants, John Aldred and John W. Mitchell. Associate photographer, Osmond Borradaile. Supervising film editor, William Hornbeck. Film editor, Charles Crichton. Associate film editor, Peter R. Hunt. Special sound effects, Jack Whitney. Special effects director, Lawrence W. Butler. Special effects by Tom Howard and Johnny Mills. Matte artist, Wally Veevers. Matte artist assistant, Peter Ellenshaw. Music score by Miklós Rózsa. Musical director, Muir Mathieson. Presented by Alexander Korda. / Released 14 October 1940. / Academy 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Technicolor 3-strip color film process. XXXX sound film system.