Kismet (1944)

Directed by

William Dieterle

Genre

drama film, fantasy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A beggar and poet in old Baghdad schemes his way into the royal court. He gets entangled with the caliph and a treacherous vizier.

whimsicalexoticmelodramaticmagicaldatedcolorfultheatricallighthearted

What happens

Kismet is a 1944 American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film in Technicolor starring Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Joy Page, and Florence Bates. James Craig played the young Caliph of Baghdad, and Edward Arnold was the treacherous Grand Vizier. It was directed by William Dieterle, but was not a success at the box office. Dieterle had directed Dietrich two decades before in the German silent film Man by the Wayside, which was both the first role in which Dietrich was cast competitively and Dieterle's directorial debut. The film is based on the play of the same name by Edward Knoblock, which was also the basis for a 1953 musical. The play had been filmed three times before, in 1914, 1920, and again in 1930 by Warner Brothers in an English version directed by John Francis Dillon and in a German-language version directed by William Dieterle that was released in 1931. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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