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Synopsis: In Bagdad, the young and naive Sultan Ahmad is curious about the behavior of his people. The Grand Vizier Jaffar convinces Ahmad to walk through the city disguised as a subject to know his people. Then he seizes the power telling to the inhabitants that Ahmad has died while he sends his army to arrest the Sultan that is thrown into the dungeons and sentenced to death. Ahmad befriends the young thief Abu that helps him to escape from the prison. They flee to Basra and plan to travel abroad with Sinbad. However Ahmad stumbles upon the beautiful princess and they fall in love with each other. But the evil Jaffar has also traveled to Basra to propose to marry the princess. When they see each other, Jaffar uses magic to blind Ahmad and turn Abu into a dog. Is their love doomed?
Production: United Artists
  Won 3 Oscars. Another 3 nominations.
 
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Year:
1940
106 min
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"Cloud as strong

that a rock under snow

"from where he/it will shoot the arrow

"justicire

who will hit the tyrant."

The tyrant's name?

Ahmad!

I dream of a miracle.

That he/it dies today.

Stop it.

Throw it in jail.

If he/it tells himself/itself king,

call it madman.

Kill anyone

comes to his/her/its help.

I understood then

that he/it was bad.

He/it had deceived me

to trap me better.

One threw me in jail...

and there, my life began indeed

because I knew there

the one that became my only friend,

Abu,

the small thief of Baghdad.

One doesn't throw

that the small in jail.

No, not the jail!

Advance, thief!

First cut him the hands,

then the legs

and finally the head.

I don't want to die!

Tomorrow morning.

As for the mad,

our sultan is generous,

only the head.

To the sunrise.

You became madman.

Me? Would I be mad?

It is you the mad.

Are you indeed?

It is that, I am mad.

I must be he.

The maddest

of the mad of the palace.

You are mad, really mad.

What imports?

Tomorrow, unless the sun

don't rise, one will die.

The thief and the mad...

I don't want to die.

You are not mad

and we will survive maybe

at dawn.

We will have died at dawn!

To the dawn,

we will take a boat

and we will go toward the sea.

I never saw the sea

but I heard

of the sailors to speak of it.

There are fish

big as the temple

and of others, small as my finger,

with wings.

There are some boats

as big as Baghdad,

to the veils

big as clouds

and that spin

as quickly as of the antelopes

until the islands of the Indies

and of China.

The Indies and China...

Whereas we are in jail.

The ax will fall at dawn.

And you pretend

not to be mad!

Watch!

It is the key of the jail.

Give it to me!

One is not able to

to leave now.

- Why?

- Wait.

They are going to eat

and after them will fall asleep.

Then one will leave.

Quickly, take this paddle!

Pass me the rope!

Do you want us to make kill?

You believe

what they would have mercy?

If the king knew,

would not he/it have mercy?

The king was a silly.

I hope that he/it suffers to death.

Do you hate it so much?

Everybody hated it.

So only

I could hold it there,

I would tell to him

my way of thinking.

Tell it to me,

I am king Ahmad.

Speak!

King Ahmad died yesterday.

Jaffar is the new king.

Watch!

Jaffar

would never have sent

the whole care

for me all alone.

Mercy, master.

I am your slave.

Punish me slightly

and I will pay for double tax.

How are you called?

Abu the thief,

son of Abu the thief,

grandson of Abu the thief.

Last of ten children

with the hunger pegged to the body.

Raise you, my friend.

Let's go back to Baghdad.

Are you completely silly?

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Miles Malleson

William Miles Malleson (25 May 1888 – 15 March 1969), generally known as Miles Malleson, was an English actor and dramatist, particularly remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s. Towards the end of his career he also appeared in cameo roles in several Hammer horror films, with a fairly large role in The Brides of Dracula as the hypochondriac and fee-hungry local doctor. Malleson was also a writer on many films, including some of those in which he had small parts, such as Nell Gwyn (1934) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). He also translated and adapted several of Molière's plays (The Misanthrope, which he titled The Slave of Truth, Tartuffe and The Imaginary Invalid). more…

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