Abdul the Damned
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| Directed by | Karl Grune |
| Produced by | Max Schach |
| Written by |
Robert Neumann Ashley Dukes Roger Burford Warren Chetham-Strode Emeric Pressburger Curt Siodmak |
| Starring |
Fritz Kortner Nils Asther John Stuart Adrienne Ames |
| Music by | Hanns Eisler |
| Cinematography | Otto Kanturek |
| Edited by | A.C. Hammond Walter Stokvis |
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Alliance-Capital Productions
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| Distributed by | Wardour Films (UK) Columbia Pictures (USA) |
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Running time
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111 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £50,000 |
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, where the eponymous absolutist Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the republican Young Turks battle for power. It is also known as Abdul Hamid.
The New York Times wrote, "Although the film achieves a few moments of dramatic interest—chiefly through the performance of the Continental Fritz Kortner—it 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."
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