George Fitzmaurice
The Son of the Sheik
Edition 1976
68'
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1926
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Drama, Romance, Adventure
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Dialogue:
English
Director:
George Fitzmaurice
With:
Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett
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?
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Credits
Director
George Fitzmaurice
With
Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett
Director of Photography
George Barnes
More information
Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Screenplay based on
"The Sons of the Sheik" (Edith Maude Hull)
Year
1926
