Abdul the Damned
6.8 /10 1 Votes
Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, History Duration Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1935 Screenplay Emeric Pressburger, Curt Siodmak, Robert Neumann, Ashley Dukes, Warren Chetham-Strode, Roger Burford Cast (The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II & Kislar), (Therese, Viennese Operetta Star), (Kadar Pasha, Chief of Police), (Talak Pasha, Officer of Turkish Army), (Ali, the Grand Eunuch), (Hassan-Bey) Similar movies Peter Voss - Thief of Millions (1932) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abdul the Damned is a 1935 British drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther and John Stuart. It was made at the British International Pictures studios by Alliance-Capitol Productions. 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.
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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" ; whereas Film Weekly found it "magnificently acted by Fritz Kortner. Interesting, impressive and, for the most part, gripping entertainment."
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