Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


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...
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“A photoplay of tempestuous love between a madcap English beauty and a bronzed Arab chief!”

The Sheik (1921) - with Rudolph Valentino
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