The Desert Sheik is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Tom Terriss and starring Wanda Hawley, Nigel Barrie and Pedro de Cordoba.Munden p.180 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.
Synopsis An American woman in Egypt falls in love with a major in the British Army. While on a trip through the desert they are attacked by Bedouins, and the woman is captured. British troops stage a rescue mission.
Cast Wanda Hawley as Corinne Adams Nigel Barrie as Major Egerton Pedro de Cordoba as Prince Ibrahim Edith Craig as Miss Adams Arthur M. Cullin as Sir Charles Roden Stewart Rome as Reverend Roden Douglas Munro as Mansoor Percy Standing as Stephen Belmont Cyril Smith as Lord Howard Cecil Hamed El Gabrey as Emir - Desert Sheik
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Bibliography Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
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