The Sheik

A photoplay of tempestuous love between a madcap English beauty and a bronzed Arab chief!
The Sheik
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item number:  74EXY
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The Sheik (Silent) for $6.90
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The Sheik (Blu-ray) for $22.50

DVD Details

  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 30, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1921
  • Label: Kino Classics

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 938
...Women were crazy for Valentino. With him, the screen sex symbol was born...
Premiere
Dec 1, 2003
Rating: B -- It's one of those films that should be seen by film buffs and those interested in films as history. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Apr 14, 2004
The film, directed by George Melford, has it both ways as it plays on the western fantasies of exoticism and romanticizes sexual slavery, but presents the Sheik as something of a prankster who treats the whole thing as a joke ... Full Review
Stream on Demand
Aug 3, 2017
The Sheik is the sort of story which will make every woman who is married to a kind and indulgent husband go home from the theater and feel her heart riled with a great pity for him because he is so prosy, and a greater pity for herself. Full Review
New York Tribune
Nov 6, 2019
The acting could not be worse than the story, but it is bad enough. Valentino is revealed as a player without resource. Full Review
Variety
May 11, 2018
Rating: 3/5 -- Landmark film that was never all that hot with a solution so jaw-droppingly racist that it's hard to believe.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Sep 5, 2004

Product Description:

This classic silent film stars silver screen legend Rudolph Valentino. Despite her countrymen's warning against travelling into the desert alone, Lady Diana rides out onto the sandy plain with only one guide to protect her. Miles into the desert, she's captured by Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan. Bewitched by her beauty, the Sheik keeps the British aristocrat locked away in a love nest hoping to make her his concubine. He tries to win her affections, but Lady Diana protects her virtue. When a distinguished Frenchman who befriended the Sheik in Paris comes to visit, Diana realizes her captor's not the uncivilized brute she mistook him for. Suddenly a tragic accident leaves Sheik Hassan seriously wounded. Will this tragedy help Diana recognize her true feelings for him' This is the picture that cemented Valentino's superstar status.

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  • UPC: 738329212353
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
  • International Shipping: 1 item

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