{"id":819,"date":"2010-08-13T19:08:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T16:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2010-08-13T19:08:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T16:08:15","slug":"thief-of-baghdad-1924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/13\/thief-of-baghdad-1924\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief of Baghdad\u00a0(1924)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great fantasy blockbuster movie of 1924 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/08\/12\/the-thief-of-bagdad\/\">The Thief of Baghdad<\/a><\/em> (Fairbanks\/United Artists, on general release from 23rd March 1924). Lovecraft must surely have seen this big-budget picture when he first moved to New York.<br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe film is now public-domain, and is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/ThiefOfBagdad1924\">free on Archive.org<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/thief-baghdad-1924.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/thief-baghdad-1924.jpg?w=222\" alt=\"\" title=\"thief-baghdad-1924\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-820\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/creature-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/creature-1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" title=\"creature-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-825\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/creature-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/creature-2.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" title=\"creature-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-826\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAbove: an undersea monstrosity encountered by the hero.<br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd the film&#8217;s depiction of the takeover of Baghdad by the Mongols finds a visual echo in the story &#8220;He&#8221; (written 11th August 1925)&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;swarming loathsomely on aerial galleries I saw the yellow, squint-eyed people of that city&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/mongols-climb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/mongols-climb.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" title=\"mongols-climb\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-833\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n[ Hat-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/08\/12\/the-thief-of-bagdad\/\">John Coulthart<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great fantasy blockbuster movie of 1924 The Thief of Baghdad (Fairbanks\/United Artists, on general release from 23rd March 1924). &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/13\/thief-of-baghdad-1924\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films-trailers","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}