- 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 · 1917 film by Maurice Tourneur
- Director
- Maurice Tourneur
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 50 min
- Genres
- drama film, silent film
- Cast
- Elsie Ferguson, Alex Shannon, George M. Cohan, Lumsden Hare