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The Desert Sheik (1924)

The Desert Sheik poster
Directed by
Tom Terriss
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of tourists traveling through the desert are captured. The film follows their ordeal and rescue.

datedsilent-eradramaticstiffepisodicstraightforwardarchaic

What happens

The Desert Sheik is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Tom Terriss and starring Wanda Hawley, Nigel Barrie and Pedro de Cordoba. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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