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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1206

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

19029 minFrance

Synopsis

Ali Baba overhears the words that open a thieves' treasure cave and takes home part of the hoard. His brother's attempt to repeat the discovery exposes the secret. When the gang comes after Ali Baba, a servant recognizes the danger hidden inside a delivery of oil jars.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 9:17
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Ferdinand Zecca · Public domain

DirectorsFerdinand Zecca

Inspirations

Pathé presents the familiar tale as a sequence of colored tableaux. Ferdinand Zecca is credited as director by the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, although some later accounts also associate Albert Capellani with the film.

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