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'Abdul the Damned' is a 1935 British drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther and John Stuart. It was made at the British International Pictures studios by Alliance-Capitol Productions. It is set in the Ottoman Empire in the years before the First World War, during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the republican Young Turks who dethroned him for power. It is also known as 'Abdul Hamid'.

Cast



as Abdul Hamid II

* Fritz Kortner - Sultan Abdul Hamid II / Kelar

* Nils Asther - Chief of Police Kadar-Pasha

* John Stuart - Captain Talak-Bey

* Adrienne Ames - Therese Alder

* Esme Percy - Ali - Chief Eunuch

* Walter Rilla - Hassan-Bey

* Charles Carson - General Hilmi-Pasha

* Patric Knowles - Omar - Hilmi's Attache

* Eric Portman - Conspirator

* Clifford Heatherley - Court Doctor

* Henry B. Longhurst - General of the Bodyguards

* Annie Esmond - Therese's Train Companion

* Harold Saxon-Snell - Chief Interrogator

* George Zucco - Officer of the Firing Squad

* Robert Naylor - Opera Singer

* Warren Jenkins - Young Turk Singer

* Henry Peterson - Spy

* Arthur Hardy - Ambassador

Critical reception



'The New York Times' wrote, "Although the film achieves a few moments of dramatic interestchiefly through the performance of the Continental Fritz Kortnerit is in the main a tedious and uninspired biography, scarred by hypodermic injections of stale melodrama"; whereas 'Film Weekly' found it "magnificently acted by Fritz Kortner. Interesting, impressive and, for the most part, gripping entertainment."

References



Bibliography



*Low, Rachael. 'Filmmaking in 1930s Britain'. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.


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