The Son of the Sheik
1926 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Men and women, fathers and children. Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts her father's gang of mountebanks. Among the cutthroats is Ghobah, a villainous Moor to whom Yasmin is promised. In ruins near Touggourt, the city where Yasmin dances, she and Ahmed meet secretly until one night when her father and the gang capture the son of the sheik, torture him, and hold him for ransom. Will Ahmed believe that Yasmin set him up for capture? Even if true love finds a way through webs of deceit, what will the vigorous and imposing sheik say about his son consorting with a dancing girl?
Direction George Fitzmaurice
Cast Rudolph Valentino · Vilma Bánky · George Fawcett · Montagu Love · Karl Dane · Bull Montana · Bynunsky Hyman · Agnes Ayres · William Donovan · Charles Requa · Erwin Connelly
Soundtrack Artur Guttmann
Screenplay Frances Marion · Fred De Gresac · Edith Maude Hull
Cinematography George Barnes
Original title The Son of the Sheik
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149 votes (FilmAffinity)
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