Abdul the Damned

Abdul the Damned
Directed by	Karl Grune
Written by	Robert Neumann Ashley Dukes Roger Burford Warren Chetham-Strode Emeric Pressburger Curt Siodmak
Produced by	Max Schach
Starring	Fritz Kortner Nils Asther John Stuart Adrienne Ames
Cinematography	Otto Kanturek
Edited by	A.C. Hammond Walter Stokvis
Music by	Hanns Eisler
Production company	Alliance-Capital Productions
Distributed by	Wardour Films (UK) Columbia Pictures (US)
Release dates	23 September 1935 (1935-09-23) (United Kingdom) 10 May 1936 (1936-05-10) (United States)
Running time	111 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£50,000[1]

Abdul the Damned (also known as Abdul Hamid) is a 1935 British drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther and John Stuart.^[2] It was made at the British International Pictures studios by Alliance-Capitol Productions. It is set in the Ottoman Empire in the years before the First World War, during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the constitutionalist Young Turks who dethroned him.