Enviado por Johnnythanhnguyen em 11/05/2011
Directed by
Ludwig Berger Michael Powell Tim Whelan Alexander Korda (uncredited) Zoltan Korda (uncredited) William Cameron Menzies (uncredited)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940) is a British Technicolor fantasy film produced by Alexander Korda, and directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, and Tim Whelan, with contributions by Korda's brothers Vincentand Zoltán, and William Cameron Menzies. The film starred child actor Sabu, also Conrad Veidt, John Justin, and June Duprez.
Although the film was produced by Alexander Korda's company London Films in England, due to the outbreak of World War II, filming was completed in California. The film won the Academy Awards forCinematography, Art Direction (Vincent Korda) and Special Effects. It was also nominated for Original Music Score.
Although a remake of the 1924 version, the two films also have significant differences. The most notable is that, in the 1940 version, the thief and the prince are separate characters.
Although it was a remake of the earlier silent version, this film has been highly influential on later movies based on The Book of One Thousand and One Nights setting. For example, the Disney film Aladdin borrows freely from it, particularly the characters of the evil Vizier and the Sultan, both drawn with a marked similarity to the characters in The Thief of Bagdad. The thieving monkey Abu in the Disney cartoon is obviously based on the boy played by Sabu.[6]Richard Williams, speaking about his film The Thief and the Cobbler, said that one of his interests was in creating an Oriental fantasy that did not copy from it. The Prince of Persia franchise also shares similar characteristics with the film. (Wikipedia)
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