| The Prince Who Was a Thief | |
| Director: | Rudolph Mate |
| Producer: | Leonard Goldstein |
| Screenplay: | Gerald Drayson Adams Aeneas MacKenzie |
| Starring: | Tony Curtis Piper Laurie |
| Music: | Hans J. Salter |
| Cinematography: | Irving Glassberg |
| Editing: | Edward Curtiss |
| Color Process: | Technicolor |
| Studio: | Universal Pictures |
| Distributor: | Universal Pictures |
| Runtime: | 89 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Gross: | $1,475,000 (US rentals)[1] |
The Prince Who Was a Thief is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Rudolph Mate and starring Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie. A technicolor swashbuckler, it was the first film Curtis featured in as a star. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
In historic Tangiers, an assassin is sent to kill a baby prince, but cannot go through with it. He decides to raise the child as his own, and he grows up to be a thief.
Life magazine attributed the apocryphal line, "Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder" to Curtis in this film.[2]