Tim Whelan, Michael Powell and Ludwig Berger
1940 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #431 Edition: DVD
Prince Ahmad, cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place and the heart of a princess in Alexander Korda’s The Thief of Bagdad, an eye-popping special-effects pioneer and one of the most spectacular fantasy films ever made.