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THIEF OF BAGDAD

Swashbuckling movie icon Douglas Fairbanks stars in this classic film adventure about a slippery and stylish burglar who dares to fall in love with the daughter of the Caliph!

In a Bagdad influenced by the Arabian Nights, Douglas Fairbanks plays a thief who wins Princess Julanne Johnston by posing as a prince himself. But then, after a treasure hunt competition with the Princess' other suitors, he has got to save her by thwarting a power grab by Mongol prince Sojin Kamiyama. Thief features a festival of wonders: a flying horse, the Caverns of Fire, the Valleys of Monsters, the Flight of a Thousand Stairs, and magic carpets (suspended from a 90-foot-high crane by piano wires), with incredible, still-spectacular-to-this-day sets. Playwright/critic Robert Sherwood called it at the time "the farthest and most sudden advance that a movie has made."

USA, 1924, 155 min., Unrated, DCP | Director: Raoul Walsh
Ben Model is one of the USA's leading silent film accompanists, and has been playing piano and organ for silents at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the past 27 years and the CAC for over 6 years.