| Abdul the Damned | |
| Director: | Karl Grune |
| Producer: | Max Schach |
| Starring: | Fritz Kortner Nils Asther John Stuart Adrienne Ames |
| Music: | Hanns Eisler |
| Cinematography: | Otto Kanturek |
| Editing: | A.C. Hammond Walter Stokvis |
| Studio: | Alliance-Capital Productions |
| Distributor: | Wardour Films (UK) Columbia Pictures (US) |
| Runtime: | 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.
The New York Times wrote, "Although the film achieves a few moments of dramatic interest—chiefly through the performance of the Continental Fritz Kortner—it is in the main a tedious and uninspired biography, scarred by hypodermic injections of stale melodrama";[3] whereas Film Weekly found it "magnificently acted by Fritz Kortner. Interesting, impressive and, for the most part, gripping entertainment."[4]