Oct 6th   

The Sheik**                   

(US 1921)                                  

A feisty aristocrat falls for and is abducted by an exotic Arab chieftain who also turns out to be European.

Archetypal desert potboiler romance, paperback thin in terms of plot, but as a vehicle for its star becoming the one role he was most identified with for millions.

Written by: Monte M. Katterjohn, from the novel by Edith Maude Hull.

Producer/Director: George Melford.

Starring: Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Adolphe Menjou, Walter Long, Lucien Littlefield, Frank Butler, George Waggner.

Photography: William Marshall.

THE SHEIKH. Agnes Ayres is putty in the arms of Rudolph Valentino. Despite the histrionics, she was by no means the only one..