The Golden Blade

The Golden Blade
Directed byNathan Juran
Screenplay byWilliam R. Cox
Story byWilliam R. Cox
Produced byLeonard Goldstein
Richard Wilson
StarringRock Hudson
Piper Laurie
CinematographyMaury Gertsman
Edited byTed J. Kent
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • September 23, 1953 (1953-09-23)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Golden Blade is a 1953 American adventure film directed by Nathan Juran and starring Rock Hudson as Harun Al-Rashid and Piper Laurie as Princess Khairuzan. It is set in ancient Bagdad and borrows from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights as well as the myth of King Arthur and the Sword in the Stone.