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The Son of the Sheik

1926 · TMDB 6.1

Directed by George Fitzmaurice

Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts her father's gang of mountebanks. She and Ahmed meet secretly until one night when her father and the gang capture the son of the sheik, torture him, and hold him for ransom.

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Rudolph Valentino's final film, a sequel to The Sheik, turns the desert romance into a swashbuckling adventure with a twist: the hero is the son of the original, and the tone is more playful and self-aware.

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