- Raised as a sheikh's son, the hero answers romantic rejection the way the film assumes an Arab would - staging a desert raid, taking the heroine captive, and consigning her to a slave sale; the couple is granted a happy ending only once he proves to be of white parentage after all.
A Son of the Sahara (1924)
film · 1924 film by Edwin Carewe
Sheikhscatalogued, not screened by the author
- Director
- Edwin Carewe
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Distributor
- FIRST NATIONAL
- Genre
- silent film, drama film
- Cast
- Claire Windsor, Bert Lytell, Rosemary Theby, Montagu Love
- Production notes
- Silent. Notes from NYT (21 June 1924). Filmed in “Biskra,” Africa. Based on Louise Gerard’s 1922 book, A Son of the Sahara
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