The Carpet from Bagdad

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Marketing for the film included a media tour of part of the set and an invitation-only screening sponsored by the publisher of MacGrath's book.

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The Carpet from Bagdad was released on May 3, to mostly positive reviews. Many praised the tinted desert scenes and realistic Middle East imagery, although some felt the scenery overshadowed the characters. The film is now mostly lost , although one badly damaged reel was salvaged from the RMS Lusitania in Horace Wadsworth, disinherited brother of New York banker Arthur Wadsworth, joins a gang of international criminals.

He plots to rob his brother's bank by constructing a tunnel from the nearby home of antique dealer George Jones, who is currently on a trip to Cairo to purchase antique rugs.

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Horace follows him there, and, learning of the Sacred Carpet of Bagdad, joins the caravan of its sworn guardian, Mohamed. Meanwhile, Horace's confederates Major Callahan and Mrs.

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Chedsoye arrive in Cairo along with Mrs. Chedsoye's daughter, Fortune, who is unaware of her mother's illicit activities. When the criminals meet with Jones in Cairo, Jones becomes enamored of Fortune. Horace steals the Sacred Carpet from Mohamed's mosque and sells it to Jones to fund the robbery plan.

Fortune, becoming suspicious of her mother and the surrounding events, steals the prayer rug from Jones and hides it in her mother's effects. Unable to locate the stolen carpet, Mohamed kidnaps Horace, Jones, and Fortune. Chedsoye and Major Callahan return to New York, where a fourth member of the conspiracy, Wallace, has acquired forged paperwork to gain access to the Jones residence.

The captives escape from Mohamed's planned torture and flee to Damascus. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again.

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Sympathetic to Horace after their shared experiences, Jones offers the robbers a two-hour lead before he notifies the police, but keeps the prayer rug.

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Meanwhile, Mohamed resigns himself to the loss of the carpet. Director Colin Campbell was concerned with the film's realism. He had sets constructed to represent the streets of Cairo, Baghdad , and Damascus, [8] and used animals from the Selig Zoo.

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William Selig aggressively promoted his studio and its films. One such promotion, a March media tour of the unfinished Selig Zoo, allowed reporters a visit to The Carpet from Bagdad' s bazaar set.

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The Carpet from Bagdad is a American silent adventure film directed by Colin Campbell and based on Harold MacGrath's eponymous novel. In the . The Pasha's servant Mohamed, is entrusted to guard the Sacred Carpet of Bagdad with his life. In New York, after banker Arthur Wadsworth forces his brother.

The Carpet from Bagdad was released on May 3, , [1] to generally positive reviews. Variety described it as a more interesting film than its title might imply, with "perfect direction and faultless acting".

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Although he believed an unfilmed Cairo scene made Mohamed's motivations easier to understand in the novel, he considered the film a "close second" to Campbell's The Spoilers. Despite the acclaim from many contemporary reviewers, modern scholars of the silent film era would not consider The Carpet from Bagdad a masterpiece, according to the British Film Institute 's Clyde Jeavons.

Like many films from the silent era, The Carpet from Bagdad was believed completely lost , but in an Oceaneering International diving expedition salvaged a number of artifacts from the wreck of the RMS Lusitania , [23] including one reel of film. With the assistance of BBC technical advisor Laurie Ward, the BFI National Archive was able to recover images from several feet of the film, sufficient to identify the title, but not to restore any of the film to projectable condition. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Catalogue of Feature Films. The Moving Picture World.