KING'S THEATRE
"Thief of Bagdad."
Against backgrounds which have never before been equalled for pictorial brilliance and sweeping spectacle, Alexander Korda's great Technicolor adventure romance, "The Thief of Bagdad," starring Sabu, Conrad Veidt, June Duprez, and John Justin, opens on Friday at the King's Theatre. Filmed at a budget exceeding 2.000,000 dollars, "The Thief of Bagdad" is a picture filled with stirring action, a fabulous adventure, Arabian Nights romance. The story of "The Thief of Bagdad" takes place in the cities of Basra and Bagdad, in Persia. Basra, many hundreds of years ago, was the most important .town and seaport of Persia. Oriental merchandise of every description was brought by camel caravan from Bagdad, making it a seething, colour-splashed seaport, swarming with Chinese, Arabs, Egyptians, Turks, Hindus, and African negroes. Its busy waters were filled with all kinds of junks painted in dazzling colours.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 117, 20 May 1941, Page 10
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144KING'S THEATRE Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 117, 20 May 1941, Page 10
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