- Benchaalal is the predatory desert Arab who makes a sport of seducing visiting European women; he courts the married English heroine by moonlight, forces an embrace she must fight off, and is killed by another Arab, a crazed merchant, so the white couple can reunite.
Barbary Sheep (1917)
film
Sheikhscatalogued, not screened by the author
- Distributor
- PAR
- Cast
- Elsie Ferguson, Lumsden Hare, Macy Harlan, Alex Shannon, Pedro de Cordoba
- Production notes
- Silent. Notes from MAG review by Anne Louise Lynch. All of Ferguson’s films, including this one, writes Lynch, “were destroyed in a studio fire.” Based on Robert Hitchens’ novel, Barbary Sheep