The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American swashbuckler film directed by
Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks. Freely adapted from One
Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love
with the daughter of the Caliph of Bagdad. In 1996, the film was
selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by
the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or
aesthetically significant".
Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks. Freely adapted from One
Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love
with the daughter of the Caliph of Bagdad. In 1996, the film was
selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by
the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or
aesthetically significant".
