The Son of the Sheik (1926)

Directors

George Fitzmaurice

Cast

Rudolph Valentino, Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett, Montagu Love, Karl Dane, Agnes Ayres, Bynunsky Hyman, Bull Montana

The story

thumb|thumbtime=5|The Son of the Sheik (1926) In his final film performance before his death in 1926, Rudolph Valentino tackles two roles, as a father and his son. Ahmed, the son of an Arab sheik and a kidnapped English gentlewoman, loves local dancing girl Yasmin. When he slips out of his father's heavily guarded compound to woo her, he is kidnapped and held for ransom by a group of bandits led by Yasmin's father and Ghabah, the Moor to whom she is betrothed.

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