The Thief of Bagdad - 1924 (HD): Arabian Nights

The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American silent film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, and written by Achmed Abdullah and Lotta Woods. 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 Baghdad. 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".

One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ ʾAlf Laylah wa-Laylah) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights from the first English-language edition (c. 1706–1721), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment.

Remastered and Musically edited by Rueda Books & Arts.
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherezade (Intro) 0:01
Manuel de Falla: El Amor Brujo (Danza del Fuego) 2:01
Maurice Ravel: Boléro 6:45
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade (The Sea & Sinbad's Ship) 20:44
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade (The Tale of the Kalendar Prince) 31:44
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade (The Young Prince & The Young Princess) 43:55

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