Arabian Adventure
Feb. 17th, 2014 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lonemagpieHeh, this just turned up on TV an hour ago- a pretty dodgy knockoff of Thief Of Bagdad, but starring Christopher Lee. That's pretty interesting inasmuch as Lee has often said that Conrad Veidt is his acting hero and took inspiration from his performances in order to play Dracula in the original Hammer version.
So, here Lee has a somewhat Jaffar-ish look with turban and moustache - and his good mirror-image has the white turban reminiscent of Jaffar's wedding outfit. He doesn't have Connie's motionlessness, but does have that deep Lee voice, obviously.
It's not a patch on the 1940 Thief, as you can tell from this clip (I couldn't find a trailer), but I remember being entertained when I saw it at the cinema back in 1979, aged 10...