- 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
- Distributor
- MACK SENNETT PROD
- Cast
- Ben Turpin, Katheryn McGuire, Dick Sutherland
- Production notes
- Silent. Notes from NYT (11 June 1923)