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Fires of Fate (1923)

Fires of Fate poster
Directed by
Tom Terriss
Genre
silent film, adventure film
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 15m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of travelers in the desert face danger from a hostile tribe. The film follows their struggle to survive and escape.

old-fashionedadventurousdramaticsteady-pacedexoticseriousdated

What happens

Fires of Fate is a 1923 British-American silent adventure film directed by Tom Terriss and starring Wanda Hawley, Nigel Barrie and Pedro de Cordoba. It was adapted from the 1909 play Fires of Fate by Arthur Conan Doyle which was in turn based on his 1898 novel The Tragedy of the Korosko. The version released in the United States is known as Desert Sheik. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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