THE SON OF THE SHEIK

A film by Georges Fitzmaurice

Cast : Rudolf Valentino

1926 / original title : THE SON OF THE SHEIK / 68’ / Black & White / status : completed / long feature-film / French catalog

Ahmed, son of Diana and the Sheik, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl promised to Ghobah, a cutthroat of her father’s gang of mountebanks. She and Ahmed meet secretly until one night, when Ahmed is captured and tortured. Will Ahmed believe that Yasmin set him up for capture?