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1935 British film directed by Karl Grune From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abdul the Damned (also known as Abdul Hamid) is a 1935 British drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther and John Stuart.[2] 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 constitutionalist Young Turks who dethroned him.
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| Directed by | Karl Grune |
| Written by | Robert Neumann Ashley Dukes Roger Burford Warren Chetham-Strode Emeric Pressburger Curt Siodmak |
| Produced by | Max Schach |
| Starring | Fritz Kortner Nils Asther John Stuart Adrienne Ames |
| Cinematography | Otto Kanturek |
| Edited by | A.C. Hammond Walter Stokvis |
| Music by | Hanns Eisler |
Production company | Alliance-Capital Productions |
| Distributed by | Wardour Films (UK) Columbia Pictures (US) |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £50,000[1] |
 | This article needs a plot summary. (December 2023) |
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";[3] whereas Film Weekly found it "magnificently acted by Fritz Kortner. Interesting, impressive and, for the most part, gripping entertainment."[4]
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