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The Sheik is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky, directed by George Melford, starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, and featuring Adolphe Menjou. It was based on the bestselling 1919 romance novel of the same name by Edith Maude Hull and was adapted for the screen by Monte M. Katterjohn .
“ The Sheik played at Sydney’s Globe several times each day for a full six months, only moving on to another theatre after strenuous and lengthy protests from suburban theatre owners.
Dec 21, 2020 · Despite his one-man strike in 1924 as a protest against the scripts forced on him, and the later move to United Artists in the hope to gain control of his career, Valentino never escaped The Sheik. His last film would be a sequel to The Sheik, called The Son of the Sheik (George Fitzmaurice, 1926). Released shortly after the star’s untimely ...
- Elisabetta Girelli
- 2020
Feb 7, 2013 · We started with an introduction to the film and its significance for the group’s interest in melodrama research. The Sheik (George Melford, 1921) is clearly very different from the thrilling ‘suspense melodrama’ The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer, 1952) which we screened a fortnight ago.
Aug 18, 2022 · The Sheik was shot on location in the Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, where the desert dunes were a good stand-in for Northern Africa–or its romanticized version. The studio set up two large camps full of extras, making the production feel like a large-scale desert expedition.
The Sheik: Directed by George Melford. With Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Ruth Miller, George Waggner. A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.
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Aug 4, 2010 · Feminist critics in the 1990s thus began to move away from reading The Sheik as a reactionary narrative of sadistic patriarchal lust visited upon a masochistic, victimized woman suffering Stockholm Syndrome. Instead, they looked at the radical and potentially liberating aspects of sexual representations and attempted to descry Diana’s ...
