Kismet
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
John Francis Dillon
Otis Skinner
Loretta Young
David Manners
Sidney Blackmer
Mary Duncan
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Hajj, beggar and thief, schemes with a guide to obtain gold from the famous bandit, the White Sheik, who is searching for his long-lost son; but Hajj recognizes the White Sheik as his enemy, Jawan, and refuses the guide his share; and the guide has Hajj arrested. Mansur, the Wazir of Police, offers Hajj the choice of losing his hand and his daughter, Marsinah, or assassinating the caliph. Saved from Hajj's dagger by his coat of mail, the caliph sends the beggar to prison, where he encounters Jawan, kills his enemy, exchanges clothing, and is released. Hajj is soon again in Mansur's clutches for trying to spirit his daughter from the wazir's harem, but Hajj kills Mansur (Jawan's son) just as the caliph enters. Rather than receiving further punishment, Hajj is released--for the caliph, who has disguised himself as his gardener's son, is about to marry Marsinah
Director
John Francis Dillon
Cast
Otis Skinner
Loretta Young
David Manners
Sidney Blackmer
Mary Duncan
Montagu Love
Ford Sterling
Theodore Von Eltz
John St. Polis
Edmund Breese
Blanche Frederici
Richard Carlyle
John Sheehan
Otto Hoffman
Charles Clary
Noble Johnson
Carol Wines
Sidney Jarvis
Lorris Baker
Olin Francis
Will Walling
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
So far, only the Vitaphone (soundtrack) discs are known to survive.
Notes
First National also produced a German-language version, with the same title, in 1931. For information on other adaptations of the story, please consult the entry for the 1944 M-G-M production of Kismet, directed by William Dieterle and starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich in ^AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1941-50 .
