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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Douglas Fairbanks is shirtless for most of the movie.
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'''''The Thief of Baghdad''''' is a SilentMovie from 1924 loosely based on stories from ''OneThousandAndOneNights.''

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'''''The Thief of Baghdad''''' is a SilentMovie from 1924 loosely based on stories from ''OneThousandAndOneNights.''Literature/OneThousandAndOneNights.''
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''The Thief of Baghdad'' is a SilentMovie from 1924 loosely based on stories from ''OneThousandAndOneNights.''

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* YellowPeril: The "Mongol" characters, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil all of which are villains]].

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* YellowPeril: The "Mongol" characters, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil all of which are villains]].villains]].
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* Main/Pegasus: The winged horse who carries the thief to the Citadel of the Moon.

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* Main/Pegasus: Pegasus: The winged horse who carries the thief to the Citadel of the Moon.
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* Pegasus: The winged horse who carries the thief to the Citadel of the Moon.

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* Pegasus: Main/Pegasus: The winged horse who carries the thief to the Citadel of the Moon.
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** And even Ahmed is (apparently) an assumed name to go with the thief's prince disguise. So, in the credits, the thief is just "the thief."

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** And even Ahmed is (apparently) an assumed name to go with the thief's prince disguise. So, in the credits, the thief is just "the thief."" On the other hand, the Mongol Khan is (once) introduced as "Cham Shang the Great."
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* TheInfiltration: Used both by the thief, to get into the palace (and the competition for the princess' hand) disguised as a prince, and by the villainous Mongols, to infiltrate twenty thousand troops disguised as porters bearing gifts. Given how easily both schemes work, a good example of TheGuardsMustBeCrazy.

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* TheInfiltration: Used both by the thief, to get into the palace (and the competition for the princess' hand) disguised as a prince, and by the villainous Mongols, to infiltrate sneak twenty thousand troops into the city disguised as porters bearing gifts. Given how easily both schemes work, a good example of TheGuardsMustBeCrazy.
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** And even Ahmed is (apparently) an assumed name to go with the thief's prince disguise. So, in the credits, the thief is just "the thief."
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* TheInfiltration: Used both by the thief, to get into the palace (and the competition for the princess' hand) disguised as a prince, and by the villainous Mongols, to infiltrate a large army disguised as porters bearing gifts.

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* TheInfiltration: Used both by the thief, to get into the palace (and the competition for the princess' hand) disguised as a prince, and by the villainous Mongols, to infiltrate a large army twenty thousand troops disguised as porters bearing gifts.gifts. Given how easily both schemes work, a good example of TheGuardsMustBeCrazy.



* SecretUndergroundPassage

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* SecretUndergroundPassageSecretUndergroundPassage. Given how easily the thief and his associate get in and out of the palace, it exhibits SwissCheeseSecurity.
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* TheInfiltration: Used both by the thief, to get into the palace (and the competition for the princess' hand) disguised as a prince, and by the villainous Mongols, to infiltrate a large army disguised as porters bearing gifts.
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* HermitGuru
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* Main/Pegasus: The winged horse who carries the thief to the Citadel of the Moon.

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* InvisibilityCloak
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* Pegasus: The winged horse who carries the thief to the great treasure he seeks.

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* Pegasus: The winged horse who carries the thief to the great treasure he seeks.Citadel of the Moon.
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* Pegasus: The winged horse who carries the thief to the final treasure.

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* Pegasus: The winged horse who carries the thief to the final treasure.great treasure he seeks.
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* HeelFaithTurn: The hero eventually realises what an asshole he's been in halfway through the movie, and goes to the city mosque for guidance from the imam he had scorned earlier in the film. Fortunately for him, the imam is a GoodShepherd (okay, maybe not ''quite'' in the modern sense, but he still counts!)

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* HeelFaithTurn: The hero eventually realises what an asshole he's been in halfway through the movie, and goes to the city mosque for guidance from the imam he had scorned earlier in the film. Fortunately for him, the imam is a GoodShepherd (okay, maybe not ''quite'' in the modern sense, but he still counts!)
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* NoNameGiven: None of the characters - [[AvertedTrope except for Ahmed]] - actually have a first name, [[TheyCallHimBarkeep and are known simply by their roles in the story]].

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* NoNameGiven: None of the characters - [[AvertedTrope except for Ahmed]] - actually have a first name, [[TheyCallHimBarkeep [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep and are known simply by their roles in the story]].
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It stars Douglas Fairbanks Senior, and was directed by [[EyepatchOfPower Raoul Walsh]]. Not to be confused with the [[Film/TheThiefOfBagdad 1940 remake]].

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It stars starred Douglas Fairbanks Senior, Senior (who also produced the movie and co-wrote the script), and was directed by [[EyepatchOfPower Raoul Walsh]]. Not to be confused with the [[Film/TheThiefOfBagdad 1940 remake]].

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It stars Douglas Fairbanks, and was directed by [[EyepatchOfPower Raoul Walsh]]. Not to be confused with the [[Film/TheThiefOfBagdad 1940 remake]].

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It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Fairbanks Senior, and was directed by [[EyepatchOfPower Raoul Walsh]]. Not to be confused with the [[Film/TheThiefOfBagdad 1940 remake]].



* EnthrallingSiren: The hero comes across a few of these in one of the trials he has to face. He's tempted... but then he looks at his beloved's ring, and snaps out of it.
* HeelFaithTurn: The hero eventually realises what an asshole he's been in halfway through the movie, and goes to the city mosque for guidance from the imam he had scorned earlier in the film. Fortunately for him, the imam is a GoodShepherd (okay, maybe not ''quite'' in the modern sense, but he still counts!)



* LoveableRogue
* SilentMovie
* YellowPeril: The Chinease villain.

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* LoveableRogue
LoveableRogue: Well, he doesn't seem much like this at the very beginning; he uses one of the daily [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salah salah]] to steal a merchant's wares, pops into a mosque specifically to tell the imam that he - the thief, that is - is better than Allah. Luckily, he sees the Princess soon after, and [[LoveRedeems when he realises that she's not another item to be stolen away]] [[TookALevelInKindness he becomes a better person for it]].
* SilentMovie
NoNameGiven: None of the characters - [[AvertedTrope except for Ahmed]] - actually have a first name, [[TheyCallHimBarkeep and are known simply by their roles in the story]].
* SilentMovie: Considered one of the classics of the medium by fans of old adventure movies.
* YellowPeril: The Chinease villain."Mongol" characters, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil all of which are villains]].
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: "Happiness must be earned" is directly stated to be the moral of the story.
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It is about a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin thief from Bagdad]] who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph, and pretends to be a prince in order to marry her.

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It is about a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin thief from Bagdad]] who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph, and pretends to be a prince in order to marry her.
her. He subsequently goes on adventures to find a treasure in order to prove his worthiness.
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It is about a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin thief from Baghdad]] who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph, and pretends to be a prince in order to marry her.

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It is about a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin thief from Baghdad]] Bagdad]] who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph, and pretends to be a prince in order to marry her.
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It stars Douglas Fairbanks, and was directed by [[EyepatchOfPower Raoul Walsh]].

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It stars Douglas Fairbanks, and was directed by [[EyepatchOfPower Raoul Walsh]].
Walsh]]. Not to be confused with the [[Film/TheThiefOfBagdad 1940 remake]].
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* DistressedDamsel: The love interest.


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* SilentMovie
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''The Thief of Baghdad'' is a SilentMovie from 1924 loosely based on stories from ''OneThousandAndOneNights.''

It is about a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin thief from Baghdad]] who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph, and pretends to be a prince in order to marry her.

It stars Douglas Fairbanks, and was directed by [[EyepatchOfPower Raoul Walsh]].

!!Tropes appearing in this film include:

* ArabianNightsDays
* TheHerosJourney
* FlyingCarpet
* LoveableRogue
* YellowPeril: The Chinease villain.

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