The 1940 film does not include Aladdin. It was a remake of the 1924 silent classic "The Thief of Bagdad" co-written by the star, Douglas Fairbanks, and Achmed Abdullah. In the time of the Arabian Nights, the city of Baghdad is ruled by Sultan Ali Bajazeth but actually controlled by the scheming Grand Vizier Ghamal. I will say that yes I like some of the characters better but this movie has a very odd way telling the story and you can see the … The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American silent swashbuckler film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, and written by Achmed Abdullah and Lotta Woods. After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves. Fairbanks stars as Ahmed, a successful thief who falls in love with a princess and fights to win her heart. As for the thief, his counterpart would be "Abu" and given that the actor would play a major role in the Planet of the Apes series, it fits. The 1940 British movie The Thief of Bagdad borrows elements of the Aladdin story, although it also departs from the original story fairly freely: for instance the genie grants only three wishes and the minor character of the Emperor's vizier is renamed Jaffar and becomes the main villain, replacing the sorcerer from the original plot. The first time I watched the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad, I recalled liking it more than the 1920’s version but when I thought about it recently I couldn’t remember why.It could have just been the superficialness of color and sound, or I might have just liked the characters better. Directed by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan. Aladdin, which most people today associate with Persia and the Middle East thanks to films such as The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and Disney’s Aladdin (1992), was one of the more popular nineteenth-century productions set in China because of its romantic and moralistic storyline and its potential as a spectacle. Aladdin (/ ə ˈ l æ d ɪ n /; Arabic: علاء الدين ‎, ʻAlāʼ ud-Dīn/ ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn, IPA: [ʕalaːʔ adˈdiːn], ATU 561, ‘Aladdin') is a folk tale of Middle Eastern origin. The Thief of Bagdad won the Academy Awards for Cinematography, Art Direction (Vincent Korda) and Special Effects (Lawrence W. Butler, Jack Whitney) and marks the first major use of bluescreening in film. In 2016, "The Thief of Bagdad" is still delightful with impressive special effects for a 1940 film with magic flying carpet, jinn, flying horse and fantastic journeys. There is only one Middle East, according to the world of movie posters - but it doesn't resemble the real one . The Thief of Bagdad is a 1940 Technicolor Arabian fantasy film, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan, with additional contributions by William Cameron Menzies and Korda brothers Vincent and Zoltán.The film stars child actor Sabu, Conrad Veidt, John Justin, and June Duprez.It was distributed in the US and the UK by United Artists. Freely adapted from One Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls … With Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin. Its really a very great film. "The Thief Of Baghdad" is a 1924 novel by Achmed Abdullah, and has been transformed into several adapted versions of epic films starring a wide range of well-knowns such as Douglas Fairbanks (1924), Steve Reeves (1961), Conrad Veidt (1940), and others, even an animated version or two, and the films range anywhere from 1924 to an endless future of remakes, and is even available as a board game. The young hero is named "Abu". The Magical World of Disney: Our Friend the Atom (1957) (TV Episode) A fisherman accidentally uncorks a giant genie from a bottle, and tricks the genie into getting back into it in exactly the same way that Sabu tricks the genie in "The Thief of Bagdad". The Thief of Bagdad is a dazzling Arabian Nights adventure fantasy set in the city of Bagdad and one of the most imaginative of all silent movies. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights) , and one of the best known—despite not being part of the original Arabic text. Watching "The Thief of Bagdad" is a journey to the childhood of many generations, when television was in black and white and this film was one of the favorite of the children. The poor of Baghdad are aided by … Aladdin to Thief of Baghdad: How film posters created an Orientalist fantasy. Just take this film and compare it to the Aladdin film from 1991 and I think you'd see some of the similarities there.