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Spectacular Settings Highlight The Sheik At Lyric
George Melford directs Paramount spectacle The Sheik featuring Agnes Ayres and Rudolph Valentino. vivid Carthaginian and Biskra sequences, desert palace interiors, and a famed Arab chieftain Omair set pieces fill the film along with a noted cast. Carthage to desert imagery frames the tale of a dominant Sheik and a bold Englishwoman.
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Paramount
London
Hollywood
Omair
Carthage
Agnes Ayres
Rudolph Valentino
Julio
Lucien Littlefield
Adolphe Menjou
George Waggner
Ruth Miller
Walter Long
F. R. Butler