The Prince Who Was a Thief
1951 film by Rudolph Maté
- June 29, 1951 (1951-06-29) (Detroit-Premiere)
- July 2, 1951 (1951-07-02) (New York City)
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The Prince Who Was a Thief is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Rudolph Mate and starring Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie. A technicolor swashbuckler, it was the first film Curtis featured in as a star. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Plot
In historic Tangiers, an assassin is sent to kill a baby prince, but cannot go through with it. He decides to raise the child as his own, and he grows up to be a thief.
Cast
- Tony Curtis as Julna
- Piper Laurie as Tina
- Everett Sloane as Yussef
- Jeff Corey as Mokar
- Betty Garde as Mirza
- Marvin Miller as Hakar
- Peggie Castle as Princess Yasmin
- Donald Randolph as Mustapha
- Nita Bieber as Cahuena
- Milada Mladova as Dancer
- Hayden Rorke as Basra
- Midge Ware as Sari
- Carol Varga as Beulah
Apocryphal line
Life magazine attributed the apocryphal line, "Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder" to Curtis in this film.[2]
References
External links
- The Prince Who Was a Thief at IMDb
- The Prince Who Was a Thief at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- The Prince Who Was a Thief at the TCM Movie Database
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Films directed by Rudolph Maté
- It Had to Be You (1947)
- The Dark Past (1948)
- D.O.A. (1949)
- No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
- Union Station (1950)
- Branded (1950)
- The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951)
- When Worlds Collide (1951)
- The Green Glove (1952)
- Sally and Saint Anne (1952)
- Paula (1952)
- The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
- Second Chance (1953)
- Forbidden (1953)
- Siege at Red River (1954)
- The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
- The Violent Men (1955)
- The Far Horizons (1955)
- Miracle in the Rain (1956)
- The Rawhide Years (1956)
- Port Afrique (1956)
- Three Violent People (1956)
- The Deep Six (1958)
- For the First Time (1959)
- Revak the Rebel (1960)
- The 300 Spartans (1962)
- Seven Seas to Calais (1962)
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