7.3
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1924
“A photoplay of tempestuous love between a madcap English beauty and a bronzed Arab chief!”
The Sheik (1921)
November 20, 19211h 26mEN
5.9
61 votes
Overview
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 MelfordWriters
Where to Watch
Streaming availability for India
Free
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Status
Released
Original Language
No Language
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Paramount PicturesFamous Players-Lasky Corporation
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CinemaSerf
6.0I 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. She rejects his, to be fair, rather kindly and indulgent advances and wants no truck with his desert ways and traditions (and, in her mind, the humiliation of being his chattel, however well intention…
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