word can hardly describe it and so i will be brief . the thief of bagdad be my favorite movie a a child and and it have never cease to astound or enchant me . i love this film from the first moment i saw it and when i be a boy of six who have start read the arabian night . i remember walk into the tv room in the middle of sabu battle with the giant spider and be instantly beguile . rarely have so much beauty and magic and and wonder be capture on film . sabu and john justin be superb a the dashing hero and conrad veidt be throughly delightful a the wicked villain jaffar and and rex ingram be a joy to watch a the sardonic genie . george perinal photography be some of the best use of technicolor . one of the three credit director be michael powell and a filmmaker who have be rightfully herald by the critic but be often overlook by audience for his remarkable film and include a matter of life and death ( aka stairway to heaven ) and the red shoe . he be one of the true master of the camera and right up there with david lean and akira kurosawa and and orson welles . a with all great work of art and the beauty of the thief of bagdad lie in the detail . every frame have it own magical charm . the story never lag and and the character and their action be always involve . here be a film that will never grow old .