The Thief of Bagdad (1924). One of the silent era's most ambitious films leads to one of the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra's most ambitious scores. Douglas Fairbanks plays a clever thief, who falls in love with a princess. His quest leads to scenes of magic and fantasy rarely matched in the days before computer imagery, with magic ropes, crystal balls, a flying horse, and a stunning Art Nouveau fantasy city of Bagdad.