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The Son of the Sheik (1926)

Name: The Son of the Sheik
Genre: Action & Adventure
Released: 1926
Duration: 1 h 8 min
Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett, Karl Dane

192669 minAction & Adventure✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

The Son of the Sheik (1926) is a 69-minute action-adventure film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by George Fitzmaurice.

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About The Son of the Sheik (1926)

The Son of the Sheik is a 1926 American silent adventure drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky. The film is based on the 1925 romance novel The Sons of the Sheik by Edith Maude Hull, and is a sequel to the 1921 hit film The Sheik, which also stars Rudolph Valentino.

In his final film performance before his death in 1926, Rudolph Valentino tackles two roles, as a father and his son. Ahmed, the son of an Arab sheik and a kidnapped English gentlewoman, loves local dancing girl Yasmin. When he slips out of his father's heavily guarded compound to woo her, he is kidnapped and held for ransom by a group of bandits led by Yasmin's father and Ghabah, the Moor to whom she is betrothed.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Son of the Sheik (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: George Fitzmaurice
Cast includes: Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett, Karl Dane, Montagu Love, Bull Montana
Country: United States

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Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1926 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_of_the_Sheik
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Rudolph Valentino's final film; E.M. Hull novel (1925) PD.
Source: Internet Archive

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