According to Roger Ebert, The Thief of Bagdad is so good that it deserves to be placed in the same category as The Wizard of Oz . Released in 1940, The Thief of Bagdad is one of several remakes of a 1924 silent film of the same name. Out of all them, none gets more attention than the 1940 iteration of the story, which is arguably even better than the original.

16 years after the release of the Douglas Fairbanks-led 1924 Hollywood classic, three different directors (Michael Powell, Tim Whelan and Ludwig Berger) teamed up to helm a British version. With Sabu, Conrad Vecht, and John Justin leading the cast, The Thief of Bagdad followed an epic adventure story set in a fictionalized take on ancient Baghdad.

The movie focuses on an unlikely team-up between a king and a thief, who

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