Abdul the Damned
Appearance
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Directed by | Karl Grune |
Written by | Robert Neumann Ashley Dukes Roger Burford Warren Chetham-Strode Emeric Pressburger Curt Siodmak |
Produced by | Max Schach |
Starring | Fritz Kortner Nils Asther John Stuart Adrienne Ames |
Cinematography | Otto Kanturek |
Edited by | A.C. Hammond Walter Stokvis |
Music by | Hanns Eisler |
Production company | Alliance-Capital Productions |
Distributed by | Wardour Films (UK) Columbia Pictures (US) |
Release dates |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £50,000[1] |
Abdul the Damned (also known as Abdul Hamid) is a 1935 British
First World War, during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the constitutionalist Young Turks
who dethroned him.
Plot
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Cast
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- Fritz Kortner as Sultan Abdul Hamid II / Kelar
- Nils Asther as Chief of Police Kadar-Pasha
- John Stuart as Captain Talak-Bey
- Adrienne Ames as Therese Alder
- Esme Percy as Ali - Chief Eunuch
- Walter Rilla as Hassan-Bey
- Charles Carson as General Hilmi-Pasha
- Patric Knowles as Omar - Hilmi's Attache
- Eric Portman as Conspirator
- Clifford Heatherley as Court Doctor
- Henry B. Longhurstas General of the Bodyguards
- Annie Esmond as Therese's Train Companion
- Harold Saxon-Snell as Chief Interrogator
- George Zucco as Officer of the Firing Squad
- Robert Naylor as Opera Singer
- Warren Jenkins as Young Turk Singer
- Henry Peterson as Spy
- Arthur Hardy as 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
- ^ "Abdul the Damned (1935)". BFI. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
- ^ "Movie Reviews". The New York Times. 24 August 2021.
- ^ "Contemporary Review (Film Weekly) - Abdul the Damned (1935)".
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
External links
- Abdul the Damned at IMDb