The Sheik

“A photoplay of tempestuous love between a madcap English beauty and a bronzed Arab chief!”

5.9(61)19211h 26m

AdventureDramaRomance

Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...

Director

George Melford

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Cast

Rudolph Valentino

Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan

Agnes Ayres

Lady Diana Mayo

Ruth Miller

Zilah - A Marriage Market Prospect

George Waggner

Yousaef - Tribal Chieftain (as George Waggener)

Frank Butler

Sir Aubrey Mayo

Charles Brinley

Mustapha Ali - Diana's Guide (as Charles Brindley)

Lucien Littlefield

Gaston - French Valet

Adolphe Menjou

Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert

Walter Long

Omair - the Bandit

Sally Blane

Arab Child (uncredited)

Earl Gordon Bostwick

Suitor (uncredited)

Rafael Negrete

Violinist (uncredited)

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

6.0

I was actually quite disappointed with this film. It has all the ingredients, all right, but somehow it just doesn't rise! Agnes Ayres is the feisty, determined "Lady Diana Mayo", a non-nonsense British aristocrat who visits Algeria where she meets the eponymous "Sheik Ahmed". She isn't much bothered about him, either way, but he falls hook, line and sinker and secrets her away to his oasis home. ...