- In this Arabian Nights Baghdad women pass between men as property: the beggar's daughter Marsinah moves from sheltered prize to the lecherous Wazir's harem before the Caliph claims her in marriage, and the harem's captive women supply the film's exotic spectacle.
Kismet (1920)
film
- Distributor
- WALDORF
- Cast
- Otis Skinner
- Production notes
- Silent. Like The Thief of Baghdad (1924, 1940, 1961), Kismet has had four set-in-Bagdad incarnations: 1920, 1930, 1944, and 1955. All four movies are based on Edward Knaublach’s 1912 play