- No Arabs appear; the stereotype arrives as slang. Keaton's rival, a cad who steals the father's watch and frames the hero with the pawn ticket, is billed simply as 'The Local Sheik,' the Valentino-era shorthand that made 'sheik' a byword for a scheming seducer.
Sherlock Jr (1924)
film
- Distributor
- METRO
- Cast
- Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane
- Production notes
- Silent. P, D: Keaton