- This Sheik parody plays Arabia as slapstick despotism: the chief Mohamet calls for a beheading on a whim, harem girls exist only to kneel, bow, and costume the hero, and once enthroned the hero claims the captured American artist as a wife on the spot. He also flings the slur "camel jockey" at an Arab early on.
The Shriek of Araby (1923)
film · 1923 film by F. Richard Jones
- Director
- F. Richard Jones
- Country
- United States
- Distributor
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Runtime
- 50 min
- Genres
- silent film, comedy film
- Cast
- Ben Turpin