Bagdad

Bagdad (1949)

The picture of 1001 pleasures! ...1001 adventures! ...1001 delights!

An Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and his Black Riders.

Date of release
1949-11-23
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Adventure
Director
Charles Lamont

Casting

Interesting facts

Bagdad is a 1949 American adventure film directed by Charles Lamont and starring Maureen O'Hara, Paul Hubschmid, and Vincent Price. O'Hara called it "a 'tits and sand' picture...one of the films that I point to as part of my decorative years but audiences love them."

Production

In April 1949 Universal announced the film would star Yvonne de Carlo and Swiss actor Paul Christian. It was Christian's Hollywood debut - he had been set to star in Sword in the Desert but was ruled out due to an eye infection. De Carlo fell ill and so Universal borrowed Maureen O'Hara from 20th Century Fox; it was O'Hara's first film at Universal.

Filming started in June. It took place on location at the Alabama Hills in Lone Pine, California. O'Hara wrote in her memoirs that she was stung by a scorpion a few days into the shoot "but other than that it was an uneventful experience."

Vincent Price appeared in the movie as the last in a four-picture contract he had with Universal. “All through one week’s filming in the blistering sun, take after take was being ruined by the inhuman howls of a lady camel,” wrote Vincent Price in his book The Book of Joe. “No one could make her stop, and the furious reprimand by the sound man to the animal owner brought out the news that the camel must have fallen in love with one of the cast.

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