A Son of the Desert (1928)
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Directors
Merrill McCormick
The story
Helen Dobson, an American art student travelling through the Arabian Peninsula arranges to paint the portrait of a sheikh but soon finds herself in trouble and is rescued by a Texas cowboy friend.
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silent film
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