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THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER workprint
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:59 pm
by Le Chiffre
Relating to the Von Stroheim/Kane thread and the idea of the doomed film, here's a more recent film maudit: Richard Williams' Arabian Nights fantasy THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER, in it's workprint form, before it was bought by another studio and sliced and diced into an ALADDIN ripoff called ARABIAN NIGHT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggDbbKyuXk
Re: THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER workprint
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 9:49 pm
by Terry
How have I never heard of this one before? Talk about troubled production history.
Here's a fan edit, or I guess
the fan edit. It is/was/could have been a remarkable film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZibUpH-AME
Re: THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER workprint
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 7:20 pm
by Le Chiffre
Good find! That's some nice work by The Thief Archive.
Re: THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER workprint
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 8:40 pm
by Terry
Now in his 80s, Richard Williams is plotting a new feature. Here's hoping he doesn't go the full Erich von Stroheim route as he did last time, though it looks as though that's his intent.
Williams' introduction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVQyppjMG7U
And the short:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy552LOHtxU
Wow, not what I was expecting.