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14 November 1920 (USA) morePlot:
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Mecca
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Creaky silent - a curiosity piece moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Otis Skinner | ... | Hajj the Beggar |
| Rosemary Theby | ... | Kut-al-Kulub |
| Elinor Fair | ... | Marsinah |
| Marguerite Comont | ... | Nargis |
| Nicholas Dunaew | ... | Nasir |
| Herschel Mayall | ... | Jawan |
| Fred Lancaster | ... | Zayd |
| Léon Bary | ... | Caliph Abdullah |
| Sidney Smith | ... | Jester |
| Hamilton Revelle | ... | Wazir Mansur |
| Tom Kennedy | ... | Kutayt |
| Sam Kaufman | ... | Amru |
| Emmett King | ... | Wazir Abu Bakr |
| Fanny Ferrari | ... | Gulnar |
| Emily Seville | ... | Kabirah, Maid to Gulnar |
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This is the first of four film versions of the famous play. The second sound, wide-screen version of 1930 is considered "lost." This 1920 silent is a very creaky work - primitive to the extreme. It is quite close to the original play which is really a play about revenge with very little romance in it (the whole center core of the plot was jettisoned for the Technicolor and musical film versions and romance written in). Otis Skinner may have been "the foremost romantic actor of his day", but there's little here to suggest it. He is homely and middle-aged with no flair, nothing special at all. He may have been unforgettable in the role of Hajj on stage and in the 1930 talkie, but not here. It does have value as a curio, especially in a film class, where one can show three of the four versions of the work in video translations - more to see how writers can take a basic source and rework it many ways. It is odd to see how tastes change. The actors playing the Caliph and Marsinah were considered "handsome and beautiful" in their day but by today's standards are quite plain.