The Prince Who Was a Thief

1951 film by Rudolph Maté

May 17, 1951 (1951-05-17) (San Francisco-Premiere)
June 29, 1951 (1951-06-29) (Detroit-Premiere)
June 30, 1951 (1951-06-30) (Los Angeles)
July 2, 1951 (1951-07-02) (New York City)

Running time

89 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBox office$1,475,000 (US rentals)^[1]

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

^ "The Top Box Office Hits of 1951", Variety, January 2, 1952
^ "Beeyoody-ful Life of a Movie Caliph". Life. November 17, 1961. p. 170.

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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