The Desert Sheik
1924, English. Directed by Tom Terriss.
Corinne Adams, a young American girl touring Egypt, meets a British soldier, Maj. Egerton, in Cairo, and they fall in love. She doesn't know that the major is suffering from a terminal illness. They and some friends take a trip into the desert and are attacked by a Bedouin tribe. The women are captured and the major is knocked out and left for dead. Can British troops arrive in time to save the women from a fate worse than death?
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The Desert Sheik (1924) was directed by Tom Terriss and stars Wanda Hawley, Nigel Barrie, Pedro de Cordoba.