ARABIAN NIGHTS ROMANCE

Hutt News, Volume 15, Issue 42, 15 April 1942, Page 3

ARABIAN NIGHTS ROMANCE

\ Against, backgrounds which have | ncvor before been equalled for picf torial brilliance and sweeping specf taolo. Alexander Korda's great Tech | nicolour adventure romance, "The | Phi of ol" Bagdad," starring Sabu, | Conrad Veidt. June Duprez and John i Justin, wiil be shown at. the King * Georgo Theatre on Friday. Filmed f at a budget of 2,0<M,000 dollars, P . p "The Thiol of Bagdad" is a picture i tilled with sense-.stiring action, a I fabulous adventure Arabian Nights r romance. it was directed by Ludwig Ber- ! "or and Michaol Powell, and Will- ; iam Cameron Menzies. who won an ■ Academy Award for designing the "Cone Willi The Wind" sets, acted as production designer. The story of "The Thief of Bagdad'' takes place in the cities of Basra and liagdad 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 soothing. colour-splashed seaport, swaraiing with Chinese. Arabs, Egyptians, Turks, Hindus and African negroes. llr busy waters were filled with all kinds of junks painted in dazzling colours. ''The Thief of Bagdad" abounds in scones un.viiiding breathtaking magic—magic which transforms a stony desert into an Enchanted City; a Flying Ilorse which flies into the clouds and returns to the spot whence it look ;Djinni, who is released from a tiny bottle, and becomes as as the highest mountain and towers over the city of Bagdad; the Black Galleon a mystery ship sailed by a wicked magician; the Flying Carpet, which goes from city to city' like an airplane; the All-Seeing Eye, a ruby stolen from a Giant Goddess, which gives its- owner power to see whatever he wishes to see, Ixo matter how far away. «= • *