OPERA HOUSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 230, 30 September 1941, Page 7

OPERA HOUSE

“THE THIEF OF BAGDAD.” Spectacle as magnificent as anything that, has been brought to the screen is contained in “The Thief of Bagdad,” which is to continue today at the Opera House. Alexander Korda in the production of this picture, which took two years in the making, spared neither time, expense nor effort to make it the great masterpiece that it is. The indefinite vague and yet wonderful dreams that people have seem to have been given a concrete form, and as in a dream, nothing has been too great or too extraordinary to be brought to the screen. An enchanted city rises from stoney barren desert, a flying carpet travels in aeroplane fashion irom city to city—the chain of magic is as endless as that of the wonders to be found in the stories of the Arabian Nights. But picture audiences have become so accustomed to mighty spectacle staged by Hollywood producers, that it is possible that the immense spectacle of “The Thief of Bagdad” would not impress them immensely—though they would have to be blase ineded —but there is at least one thing, apart from the line actors of the picture, which is likely to make a lasting impression on the minds of an audience. It is the magnificence of the colour which can be best described as ah imaginative and very wonderful technicolour.