The Carpet from Bagdad [SEP] director
The Carpet from Bagdad
The Carpet from Bagdad is a 1915 American silent adventure film directed by Colin Campbell and based on Harold MacGrath's 1911 eponymous novel. In the story, Horace Wadsworth (played by Guy Oliver), one of a gang of criminals also planning a bank robbery in New York, steals the titular prayer rug from its Baghdad mosque. He sells the carpet to antique dealer George Jones (Wheeler Oakman) to fund the robbery scheme. But the theft places both men and Fortune Chedsoye (Kathlyn Williams)
Despite the acclaim from many contemporary reviewers, modern scholars of the silent film era would not consider "The Carpet from Bagdad" a masterpiece, according to the British Film Institute's Clyde Jeavons.
Partial rediscovery.
Like many films from the silent era, "The Carpet from Bagdad" was believed completely lost, but in 1982 an Oceaneering International diving expedition salvaged a number of artifacts from the wreck of the RMS "Lusitania", including one reel of film. With the assistance of BBC technical advisor Laurie Ward,