The Sheik
About The Sheik
Lady Diana Mayo goes into the Algerian desert against advice. Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan abducts her and keeps her in his tent. She gets out onto the sand and is taken by a bandit chief. Ahmed comes after her and is wounded. She stays. Rudolph Valentino plays Ahmed. Agnes Ayres plays Diana.
Cast & crew
More about The Sheik
George Melford directed. Jesse L. Lasky produced. Monte M. Katterjohn adapted Edith Maude Hull's 1919 novel. Paul Ivano and William Marshall photographed. Paramount released it. Dates include October 30 and November 20, 1921. 80 minutes. The cost on record is $200,000 and the box-office figure is $1,500,000. Adolphe Menjou is billed. The desert on screen is California and Arizona. A copy is on the Internet Archive as TheSheik.
Themes
Look
Paul Ivano and William Marshall shot the tent and the dunes in California and Arizona.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Ayres returns as Diana in the 1926 sequel.
- Menjou is in the European party, not the bandit chief.
- The $1,500,000 figure is the recorded box office.
- The locations are American desert, not Algeria.
Scenes
- Ahmed takes Diana from the desert party into the tent.
- He rides after the bandit who has her and comes back wounded.
Influenced by
- Edith Maude Hull's novel The Sheik (1919)
Also available
- Internet Archive (TheSheik)
