Film

The Sheik

Director
George Melford
Certificate
PG
Running Time
75 mins

‘20s heartthrob Rudolph Valentino stars in this steamy if somewhat politically incorrect tale of a charming Arabian sheik who becomes infatuated with an adventurous Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.

South West Silents presents a new digital restoration of this 1921 box office record-breaker with live piano accompaniment.

By robin askew, Friday, Dec 21 2018

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