The Desert Sheik (1924)
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Corinne Adams, a young American girl touring Egypt, meets a British soldier, Maj. Egerton, in Cairo, and they fall in love. She doesn't know that the major is suffering from a terminal illness. They and some friends take a trip into the desert and are attacked by a Bedouin tribe. The women are captured and the major is knocked out and left for dead. Can British troops arrive in time to save the women from a fate worse than death?
- Release date
- July 21, 1924
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Wanda Hawley as Corinne Adams
- Nigel Barrie as Maj. Egerton
- Pedro de Cordoba as Prince Ibrahim
- Edith Craig as Miss Adams
- Arthur M. Cullin as Sir Charles Roden
- Stewart Rome as Rev. Roden
- Douglas Munro as Mansoor
- Percy Standing as Stephen Belmont
- Cyril Smith as Lord Howard Cecil
- Hamed El Gabrey as Emir - Desert Sheik
Crew
- Tom Terriss · Director
- Arthur Conan Doyle · Writer
- Arthur Hoerl · Writer
- Alice Ramsey · Writer
- A.C. Bromhead · Producer
- H.W. Bishop · Cinematographer
- A. St. A. Brown · Cinematographer
- Arthur Hoerl · Editor