2.9K views · 33 reactions | Tonight's Cohen Film Classic is the 1924 silent film The Thief of Bagdad, starring Douglas Fairbanks. It is considered to be one of the most imaginative of all silent movies. Join us at 10 p.m. | KCET | Facebook

Silent Cinema Moments Douglas Fairbanks The Thief of Bagdad_ The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American silent adventure film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, and written by Achmed Abdullah and Lotta Woods. Freely adapted from One Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad. In 1996, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "cult