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Abdul The Damned

1935, Movie, NR, 111 mins

Abdul The Damned: Review

Overlong costumer depicts 1900 Turkey ruled by a paranoid potentate, Kortner, who ruthlessly destroys everyone he believes to be conspiring against him. Asther, as chief of police, blindly obeys his sultan's Nero-like orders but is pronounced guilty of plotting against his lord and is given a death decree, rescinded when Ames, a visiting Viennese actress who has fallen in love with Asther, agrees to join Kortner's harem. A stodgy historical opus. At the time of this productio... read more leave a comment