Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917): Cast

In Baghdad, Princess Badr al‑Budur, the Sultan’s daughter, loves Aladdin, a poor tailor’s son, and spurns the alchemist al‑Talib her father selects. Al‑Talib learns of a magic lamp hidden in a cave and hires Aladdin, who retrieves it but keeps it after sensing his evil. With its wishes Aladdin gains wealth and wins the princess. When al‑Talib steals the lamp and kidnaps Badr al‑Budur to the desert, Aladdin follows with only a gourd of water until the Sultan’s men rescue him.

• SF Co-director Sidney Franklin
• CM Co-director Chester M. Franklin

• FC Francis Carpenter as Aladdin
• VL Virginia Lee Corbin as Princess Badr al-badr
• Raymond Lee as Boy of the Street
• AP Alfred Paget as The Sultan

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