

The Sheik
A photoplay of tempestuous love between a madcap English beauty and a bronzed Arab chief!
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
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- silent film
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR20 Nov 1921
AustriaAT
- Theatrical61 Jan 1922
FranceFR
- PhysicalUDVD17 Mar 2009
- PhysicalBlu-Ray27 Oct 2021
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The Sheik was released on 20 November 1921.
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CinemaSerf
6/6/2022
I was actually quite disappointed with this film. It has all the ingredients, all right, but somehow it just doesn't rise! Agnes Ayres is the feisty, determined "Lady Diana Mayo", a non-nonsense British aristocrat who visits Algeria where she meets the eponymous "Sheik Ahmed". She isn't much bothered about him, either way, but he falls hook, line and sinker and secrets her away to his oasis home. She rejects his, to …
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