Kismet

Kismet (1930)

A Fantasy of Romance and Passion Woven With the Glamourous Threads of Ancient Bagdad! ...the night of nights - no dream of dreams ever thrilled like this!

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.

Date of release
1930-10-30
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Director
John Francis Dillon

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Kismet

Kismet is a 1930 American pre-Code musical costume drama film photographed entirely in an early widescreen process using 65mm film that Warner Bros. Pictures called Vitascope and featuring Technicolor sequences. The film, now considered lost, was based on Edward Knoblock's play Kismet, and was previously filmed as a silent film in 1920 which also starred Otis Skinner.

Production

Warner Bros. spared no expense in making this picture. They spent $600,000 in producing it, and the extravagance of the film was noted by every reviewer. The film played in ten cities across the United States in the wide-screen Vitascope (65mm) version, while the rest of the country (which did not yet have theaters capable of playing widescreen films) were provided with standard 35mm prints.

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