It’s difficult to dismiss the influence this picture had on subsequent fantasy and adventure yarns, not just due to Fairbanks’ popularity, but also with the epic nature of the project’s construction.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 16, 2024

As a spectacle The Thief of Bagdad is magnificently and thrillingly impressive. Almost it may be said it is pure magic.

| Mar 16, 2023

Two hours of superb diversion.

| Oct 26, 2022

Not only is it the best production which has come from Douglas Fairbanks in his extended motion picture career -- it is also one of the few sure film classics, one of the rare and surprising creations of the film world.

| Oct 22, 2022

No magic in the dream of ancient fiction can be classed as comparable with the magical achievements in modern cinema science... Fairbanks, it must he further realized, is himself a magician at doing things that to others are impossible.

| Oct 22, 2022

Never its like has been seen before; never its like will be viewed again for many a day. It is the first and the last, the magical height and the iridescent depth of fantasy.

| Oct 22, 2022

The Thief of Bagdad has a marvelous fairy tale quality -- a romantic sweep lifts the audience and vaporizes it into pink, fluffy clouds. It also has much beauty and much solidity of dramatic construction.

| Oct 22, 2022

Anyone who saw the nimble Fairbanks in Robin Hood can imagine, in a degree, the exuberance with which he carries off all these astonishing adventures.

| Oct 22, 2022

[Anna May Wong] furnishes one of the outstanding personalities in this new Fairbanks film. So-Jin is splendid... and Snitz Edwards, as the evil associate of The Thief, is also deserving of much credit for his very effective interpretation of the role.

| Oct 22, 2022

One doesn't have a professional mind when one sees The Thief of Bagdad. For one is a child again, believing in the thing one sees.

| Oct 22, 2022

It may be said without any exaggeration that The Thief of Bagdad is the greatest cinema of its kind ever to be projected on the silver screen; a truly colossal effort founded and produced upon pure entertainment principles.

| Oct 22, 2022

Douglas Fairbanks as the thief Is the same Douglas Fairbanks of his former pictures This picture however calls for a fantastic sort of playing which Fairbanks measures up to.

| Oct 22, 2022

Fairbanks as the thief gives a corking performance... Anna May Wong... proved herself to be a fine actress.

| Oct 22, 2022

The direction of the picture is no less a work of art than is the magnificent staging, and in this display of directorial talent Raoul Walsh has set a mark that will stand for a long time.

| Oct 22, 2022

Between these screenic miracles there are interludes when the story needs reinforcement... when the interest lags unfortunately. The story, lacking dramatic suspense to any great extent, is far too slim for the production's length.

| Oct 22, 2022

This is the kind of thing that the cinema, and only the cinema, can do.

| Oct 21, 2022

Not even Baron Munchausen ever dreamed such a fairy tale as is unfolded in this gorgeous romance.

| Oct 21, 2022

By artistic direction by Fairbanks, by intriguing acting by him and his immediate assistants, and lastly, by the most charming settings ever seen on the screen, an effect is produced, an atmosphere is created that would be totally impossible on the stage.

| Oct 21, 2022

Two hours of superb diversion.

| Oct 21, 2022

It is like nothing that has ever come to the screen... it marks a big advance in settings lighting, photography, and appeal to the imagination.

| Oct 21, 2022