The Sheik
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The work The Sheik represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.
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The Sheik
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The work The Sheik represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.
- Label
- The Sheik
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- It is a well known and often told story that Rudolph Valentino was a largely unknown actor when he appeared in The Sheik (1921), the film that shot him into the rarified heights of an international film star. The film, based on a 'scandalous' British novel, seems more than a bit melodramatic today, with its 'forbidden' interracial love elements and its sappy story of a privileged and self-determined society woman who is knocked-down a peg or two by the desert and its inhabitants. However, Valentino (who does more than his share of ridiculous eye-popping in the film in lieu of better acting devices — fault director George Melford for not keeping it under control) holds the film together by virtue of his magnetic presence alone. There are plenty of shots of Valentino flashing that million-dollar smile that made him the top matinee idol of the 1920s. The film, nonetheless, does have a number of exciting action sequences that help it rise above the average film fare of 1921. Directed by George Melford
- Cataloging source
- UtOrBLW
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Date time place
- Originally produced by Film Preservation Society in 1921
- Runtime
- 86
- Technique
- live action
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