The Desert Sheik

(1924)

★ 9 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance

Year: 1924

Runtime: 60 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Tom Terriss

Cast: Wanda Hawley, Nigel Barrie, Pedro de Cordoba, Edith Craig, Stewart Rome, Douglas Munro, Cyril Smith, Arthur M. Cullin, Percy Standing, Hamed El Gabrey

Plot

Corinne Adams, a young American girl touring Egypt, meets a British soldier, Maj. Egerton, in Cairo, and they fall in love. She doesn't know that the major is suffering from a terminal illness. They and some friends take a trip into the desert and are attacked by a Bedouin tribe. The women are captured and the major is knocked out and left for dead. Can British troops arrive in time to save the women from a fate worse than death?