Photos from The Sheik

These are five photos from the film, "The Sheik." This was truly the film that launched Valentino into stardom. The term Sheik was introduced to America. This film was based on the controversial book from E.M. Hull about this Arab Sheik who obducts a white women, takes her out to the desert and rapes her. Even more controversial was that E.M. Hull was a women who wrote this book, Edith Maude Hull.