Michael Powell

Michael Powell shared The Thief of Bagdad with two other directors. By the Hollywood Reporter items the AFI relays, he directed the spectacle scenes, while Tim Whelan took the directing over from Ludwig Berger. Resting on modern sources, the page writes that the producer Alexander Korda did not care for Berger's close and intimate way of shooting, wanted a showier look and hired Whelan for the action scenes. The catalogue's other thirteen entries for him are British productions, and among them are The Red Shoes and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, which he co-signed with Emeric Pressburger, and Peeping Tom, which he directed alone.