The Son of the Sheik (1926)
Directed by George Fitzmaurice · 69 min · Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
17.2 TOPICAL score · #4,804 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts her father's gang of mountebanks. She and Ahmed meet secretly until one night when her father and the gang capture the son of the sheik, torture him, and hold him for ransom.
The Son of the Sheik (1926, directed by George Fitzmaurice) has a TOPICAL score of 17.2 - ranked 4,804 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on historical impact and audience, and lowest on awards. Audiences: TMDB 6.1/10 (34 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 24 languages, and the Library of Congress chose it for the National Film Registry.
Why this score
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- AudienceTMDB 6.1/10 (34 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 24 languages · National Film Registry
- Still read2,842 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett, Montagu Love (actor #1,773)