Caravan of Death

Caravan of Death (German: Die Todeskarawane) is a 1920 silent German film, it was an adaptation of the latter half of the Karl May novel From Baghdad to Stamboul, and is now considered to be lost. The film featured Bela Lugosi playing an Arab Sheik pitted against European travellers in an adventure story set in the Sahara. It was the second of three films released by Ustad based on desert adventure novels by Karl May. Although Karl May’s widow praised the film, critics were unimpressed and it was a commercial failure.

Director: Josef Stein

Cast: Carl de Vogt, Meinhart Maur, Erwin Baron, Gustav Kirchberg, Dora Gerson, Cläre Lotto, Maximilian Werrak, Karl Kuszar

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.