凯撒（爱德华·罗宾逊 Edward G. Robinson 饰）和乔伊（道格拉斯·范朋克 Douglas Fairbanks Jr. 饰）是相识多年的老友。他们一个想要成为人尽皆知的江洋大盗，另一个却厌倦了打打杀杀的日子，想要追逐内心里成为一名舞者的梦想，两位好友就此走上了截然不同的人生道路。凯撒加入了大佬维托里（Stanley Fields 饰）所领导的黑帮之中，随着时间的推移，他在组织里的地位越来越高。然而，凯瑟却并不满足于扮演一个马仔的角色，他设计杀死了维多利，取代了他的位子。那边厢，乔伊亦为成为舞者而努力着，某日，他邂逅了一位名为奥尔加（格伦达·法瑞尔 Glenda Farrell 饰）的脱衣舞女郎，就此坠入了情网。 Douglas Fairbanks spared no expense for what may be the most lavish fantasy movie ever made. Inspired by the flying-carpet effects of Fritz Lang's somber but spectacular Der Müde Tod, Fairbanks (ever the canny businessman) bought the American rights, then hid the film away as he created his own show-stopping adventure, an adaptation of A Thousand and One Nights in which the magic-carpet ride was but one of many fantastic marvels. Swaggering through massive marketplace sets and cavernous throne rooms as an incorrigible thief and pickpocket, he scales towering walls (with the help of a magic rope) and leads a merry chase through crowded bazaars in his pursuit of loot--until he falls in love with the beautiful princess and vows to win her heart. This jaunty opening is but mere preamble to the spectacular second act. As three kings scour the globe to retrieve the rarest treasures known to man, the repentant thief embarks on an odyssey through caverns of fire and underwater caves. The marvelous special effects--from the smoke-belching dragon and underwater spider to the flying horse and magic armies arising from the dust--may show their seams but glow with a timeless sense of wonder. William Cameron Menzies's magnificent sets appear to have leapt from the pages of a storybook. As the adventure concludes in a torrent of movie magic that cascades nonstop through the breathless final hour, Fairbanks commands the screen with a hearty laugh and graceful athleticism, the cinema's first action hero triumphant. Kino's restored edition is tinted and features an organ score by Gaylord Carter. --Sean Axmaker The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu. VisitinginEngland,famedAmericansurgeonDoctorJohnMarloweisdecoyedtoamiddleEuropeancountry,anddiscoverstheoperationheistoperformisontheVosniandictator.Whenthelatterdies,heisreplacedbyalook-alike,butMarloweistheobjectofashoot-to-kill,viciouspursuitbythesecretpoliceofVosniasinceitisvitaltoVosniathatthedictator’sdeathdoesnotbecomeknown.Fleeing,heseekshelpfromanEnglish-speakingactress,LisaRobinson,andthetwoareharriedacrossthecountrysidebeforebeingcaptured. 
