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The sheik

The sheik

DVD 2013

Struck down by her beauty, Sheik Ahmed adbucts Lady Diana, an English woman touring Arabia, and carries her off to his desert kingdom. Although he lavishes her with attention and luxuries, she withholds herself from his charms. Wandering off from Ahmed's guards, she is captured by the desert bandit Omair. The Sheik rounds up his warriors and races off to attack Omair's stronghold, before the bruce can force himself upon his beloved Diana.

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Arabs Drama
British Arabian Peninsula Drama
Feature films
Man-woman relationships Drama
Silent films
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Description:
1 videodisc (55 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
monochrome
digital
optical
video file
DVD video
all regions
Target Audience Note:
CHVR: Not rated
Other Title:
Sheik (Motion picture : 1921)
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1921
From the novel by Edith M. Hull
Directed by George Melford ; photographed by William Marshall
Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Ruth Miller, George Waggner, Walter Long
DVD; all regions
Control Number:
2465797
UPC:
089218722898
Other Authors:
Alpha Home Entertainment (Firm)
Ayres, Agnes, 1896-1940
Hull, E. M. (Edith Maude). Sheik
Lasky, Jesse L., 1880-1958
Long, Walter, 1879-1952
Melford, George, -1961
Miller, Ruth, 1903-1981
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Valentino, Rudolph, 1895-1926
Waggner, George, 1894-1984
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