Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
● Disney spent $250,000 (BD94,258) to make Hamad and the Pirates.
● The lead role of the boy Hamad was played by the 14-year old Khalid Abdullah Marshad Al Kubaisi who was selected from a group of 500 local school boys.
● Khalid was paid a little over BD4,000 (approximately $10,609) for his role as Hamad.
● The film took 18 months to complete. It began filming in May 1969 and finished in October 1970.
