*The Warlock is already in his lair sitting at the kitchen table. He’s wearing a black leather jacket, white t-shirt, blue jeans, white sneakers and gargoyle shades*
W: Welcome back to Public Domain Week here at Warlock’s Movie Realm. Tonight we won’t be looking at one of the movies that recently entered the public domain but rather the prequel to one of them. Today we’ll be looking at the 1921 romantic drama THE SHEIK!
*Warlock fires up his laptop*
W: For those that don’t know, Rudolph Valentino was one of the first successful Latin actors in the US and he dominated the 1920’s, pretty much the Clark Gable of the decade. So what’s Rudolph do here? He’s a rich Sheik that falls in love with a British woman. Hes GOT to have her and apparently that means at any cost.
*Warlock puts the movie on*
W: It should be noted this will be the 605th movie I’ve watched for the Realm and THE SHEIK will now be the oldest one I’ve done, coming out a year before Nosferatu which we all saw yesterday. So will the movie hold up over a hundred years later? Let’s find out. Grab your popcorn, grab you drink and grab your woman because its time for THE SHEIK.
Written by Edith Maude Hull and Monte M Katterjohn
Directed byGeorge Melford
Cast:
| Rudolph Valentino | … | The Sheik – Ahmed Ben Hassan | |
| Agnes Ayres | … | Lady Diana Mayo | |
| Ruth Miller | … | Zilah – A Marriage Market Prospect | |
| George Waggner | … | Yousaef – Tribal Chieftain (as George Waggener) | |
| Frank Butler | … | Sir Aubrey Mayo | |
| Charles Brinley | … | Mustapha Ali – Diana’s Guide (as Charles Brindley) | |
| Lucien Littlefield | … | Gaston – French Valet | |
| Adolphe Menjou | … | Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert | |
| Walter Long | … | Omair – the Bandit | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Sally Blane | … | Arab Child (uncredited) | |
| Earl Gordon Bostwick | … | Suitor (uncredited) | |
| Sidney Bracey | … | Officer talking with Diana at Party (uncredited) | |
| Rafael Negrete | … | Violinist (uncredited) | |
| Natacha Rambova | … | Arab Dancer (uncredited) | |
| Loretta Young | … | Arab Child (uncredited) | |
| Polly Ann Young | … | Arab Child (uncredited) |
*Warlock reads the tag-line*
W: “A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.”
W: Good ol fashioned kidnapping!
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