Abdul the Damned
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| Directed by | Karl Grune |
| Produced by | Max Schach |
| Written by | Robert Neumann Ashley Dukes Roger Burford Warren Chetham-Strode Emeric Pressburger Curt Siodmak |
| Starring | Fritz Kortner Nils Asther John Stuart Adrienne Ames |
| Music by | Hanns Eisler |
| Cinematography | Otto Kanturek |
| Edited by | A.C. Hammond Walter Stokvis |
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Release dates
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1935 |
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Running time
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111 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £50,000[1] |
Abdul the Damned is a 1935 British drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther and John Stuart.[2] It was made by British International Pictures. It is set in the Ottoman Empire in the years before the First World War, where the eponymous absolutist Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the republican Young Turks battle for power. It is also known as Abdul Hamid.
Cast
- Fritz Kortner - Sultan Abdul Hamid II / Kelar
- Nils Asther - Chief of Police Kadar-Pasha
- John Stuart - Captain Talak-Bey
- Adrienne Ames - Therese Alder
- Esme Percy - Ali - Chief Eunuch
- Walter Rilla - Hassan-Bey
- Charles Carson - General Hilmi-Pasha
- Patric Knowles - Omar - Hilmi's Attache
- Eric Portman - Conspirator
- Clifford Heatherley - Court Doctor
- Henry B. Longhurst - General of the Bodyguards
- Annie Esmond - Therese's Train Companion
- Harold Saxon-Snell - Chief Interrogator
- George Zucco - Officer of the Firing Squad
- Robert Naylor - Opera Singer
- Warren Jenkins - Young Turk Singer
- Henry Peterson - Spy
- Arthur Hardy - Ambassador
Critical reception
The New York Times wrote, "Although the film achieves a few moments of dramatic interest—chiefly through the performance of the Continental Fritz Kortner—it is in the main a tedious and uninspired biography, scarred by hypodermic injections of stale melodrama" ; [3] whereas Film Weekly found it "magnificently acted by Fritz Kortner. Interesting, impressive and, for the most part, gripping entertainment." [4]
References
- ↑ Low p.242
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- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D04EED8103AE33BBC4952DFB366838D629EDE
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Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Abdul the Damned at IMDb
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