- North Africa serves as the story's disposal ground: the unwanted husband joins a dangerous Saharan expedition and is fatally shot when Arab raiders attack it, the desert ambush existing purely to clear the way for the widowed heroine and her lord.
Beyond the Rocks (1922)
film · 1922 film by Sam Wood
- Director
- Sam Wood
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Distributor
- Paramount Pictures
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Genres
- romance film, silent film, drama film
- Cast
- Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Alec B. Francis, Robert Bolder