The Desert Sheik
1924 film directed by Tom Terriss
- July 21, 1924 (1924-07-21)
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The Desert Sheik is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Tom Terriss and starring Wanda Hawley, Nigel Barrie and Pedro de Cordoba.[1] British star Stewart Rome also appears in a supporting role. The story is inspired by the 1898 novel The Tragedy of the Korosko by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Synopsis
An American woman in Egypt falls in love with a major in the British Army. While on a trip through the desert they are attacked by Bedouins, and the woman captured. British troops stage a rescue mission.
Cast
- Wanda Hawley as Corinne Adams
- Nigel Barrie as Major Egerton
- Pedro de Cordoba as Prince Ibrahim
- Edith Craig as Miss Adams
- Arthur M. Cullin as Sir Charles Roden
- Stewart Rome as Reverend Roden
- Douglas Munro as Mansoor
- Percy Standing as Stephen Belmont
- Cyril Smith as Lord Howard Cecil
- Hamed El Gabrey as Emir - Desert Sheik
References
- ^ Munden p.180
Bibliography
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
- The Desert Sheik at IMDb
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Films directed by Tom Terriss
- Flame of Passion (1915)
- The Pearl of the Antilles (1915
- The Pursuing Shadow (1915)
- Society Wolves (1916)
- My Country First (1916)
- The Fettered Woman (1917)
- Find the Woman (1918)
- The Song of the Soul (1918)
- The Business of Life (1918)
- Everybody's Girl (1918)
- The Triumph of the Weak (1918)
- To the Highest Bidder (1918)
- The Woman Between Friends (1918)
- The Spark Divine (1919)
- The Tower of Jewels (1919)
- The Captain's Captain (1919)
- The Climbers (1919)
- The Cambric Mask (1919)
- The Bramble Bush (1919)
- The Lion and the Mouse (1919)
- The Third Degree (1919)
- The Vengeance of Durand (1919)
- Trumpet Island (1920)
- Captain Swift (1920)
- Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920)
- The Fortune Hunter (1920)
- The Heart of Maryland (1921)
- Boomerang Bill (1922)
- The Challenge (1922)
- Find the Woman (1922)
- The Bandolero (1924)
- The Desert Sheik (1924)
- His Buddy's Wife (1925)
- The Romance of a Million Dollars (1926)
- The Girl from Rio (1927)
- Temptations of a Shop Girl (1927)
- Beyond London Lights (1928)
- Clothes Make the Woman (1928)
- The Naughty Duchess (1928)
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