"Actor: Vilma Banky"

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  One of the most popular films from the silent era, director George Fitzmaurice's The Son of the Sheik stars Rudolph Valentino who gives perhaps the finest performance of his career. Unfortunately, it would be his last, he died suddenly at the age of 31, just days before the film's release. In this visually intoxicating sequel to Valentino's career-defining film The Sheik, the silent screen's greatest lover portrays a cultured yet untamed young man who is lured into a thieves' trap by a beautiful dancer, Yasmin (Vilma Banky). After escaping, he kidnaps the damsel and holds her captive in his desert lair, dressing her in Arabian finery and threatening to unleash his violent passion upon her. Exotic romance saturates every frame of this Orientalist epic; its sadomasochistic fantasies are acted out against the lavish set design of William Cameron Menzies (The Thief of Bagdad) and lushly photographed by George Barnes (Sadie Thompson). Special Features Presented in 1080p from a high-definition digital restoration, with a progressive encode on the DVD DTS-HD MA 5.1 and uncompressed 2.0 audio options on the Blu-ray Loitering Within Tent A brand new video essay by David Cairns Introduction to the film by Orson Welles A collector's booklet featuring a new essay by critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson

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  Set Comprises: 1. The Sheik 2. The Eagle 3. Blood And Sand Rudolph Valentino was born in Castellaneta Apulia Italy on the 6th May 1895. In 1913 he went to America landing in New York where he worked for a short time as a dancer and gained a certain amount of local fame. He then joined an operetta company that disbanded in Utah. From there he moved to California where he started his career in cinema which was still in the silent era at that time. He made a dozen films that made him quite famous leading on to his greatest film successes from 1921 to his untimely death in 1926.

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  Valentino plays the Shiek's son Ahmed who falls in love with Yasmin a dancing girl who fronts her father's gang of mountebanks. Among the cutthroats is Ghobah a villainous Moor to whom Yasmin is promised. In the ruins near Touggourt the city where Yasmin dances she and Ahmed meet secretly until one night when her father and the gang capture the son of the Shiek torture him and hold him for ransom. Will Ahmed believe that Yasmin set him up for capture? Even if true love finds a way through webs of deceit what will the vigorous and imposing Shiek say about his son consorting with a dancing girl?