The Son of the Sheik

Overview

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.

Directed by George Fitzmaurice

Top cast

Rudolph Valentino

Ahmed, the Sheik's Son / Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan

Vilma Banky

Yasmin, André's Daughter

George Fawcett

André Romez

Montagu Love

Ghabah

Agnes Ayres

Diana - Wife of the Sheik

Karl Dane

Ramadan

Bull Montana

Mountebank

B

Bynunsky Hyman

Mountebank (as Binunsky Hyman)

E

Earl Gordon Bostwick

Bit Part

Erwin Connelly

The Zouve

W

William Donovan

S'rir

Charles Requa

Pierre - Ahmed's Friend

H

Harry Blassingame

One of Sheik's Men

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