The Thief of Baghdad (Italian: Il ladro di Bagdad) is a 1961 film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Steve Reeves.

[4] In the time of the Arabian Nights, the city of Baghdad was ruled by Sultan Ali Bajazeth but actually controlled by the scheming Grand Vizier Ghamal.

Prince Osman is due to arrive at the palace to ask for the hand of Sultan Ali's daughter Amina in marriage.

Karim sneaks into the palace, waylays Osman, and impersonates the prince, using the opportunity to steal jewels from all of the assembled courtiers.

Climbing down into a courtyard to escape the guards, he lands in the middle of a group of prisoners condemned to slavery in the Desert Mills and is dragged off with them.

The Third Door leads to the Palace of Kadeejah, a beautiful woman who tempts Karim to give up the quest and remain with her.

Karim realizes that Kadeejah and her palace are a trap and finds the Fourth Door in a seaside cave.

On the bare back of which he travels to a castle in the clouds where he finds the blue rose behind the Sixth Door.

He is immediately transported back to the desert, via the Seventh Door, where the old man is waiting with Karim's horse.

Lubin later said "the location was interesting but the picture was hard work... the producer had never made a movie before and the company was running out of money.

"[8] The New York Times called it "a great big Eastman coloured dumb show" which "moves at a snail's pace in cardboard oriental settings.

"[9] Diabolique magazine said the film "has bright colours and Tunisian locations but is hurt by a wonky screenplay and uncertainty how much fantasy to put in.

Some of the film's Quest tests, Amina's kidnapping, and Osman's siege of Baghdad were eliminated from the novelization.