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.
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Directed by | Rudolph Mate |
Screenplay by | Gerald Drayson Adams Aeneas MacKenzie |
Based on | (Based upon the Story by) Theodore Dreiser |
Produced by | Leonard Goldstein |
Starring | Tony Curtis Piper Laurie |
Cinematography | Irving Glassberg |
Edited by | Edward Curtiss |
Music by | Hans J. Salter |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,475,000 (US rentals)[1] |
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.
Life magazine attributed the apocryphal line, "Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder" to Curtis in this film.[2]