Released Date:
1926-09-05
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
68 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (1339 Reviews)
Director:
George FitzmauriceEdith Maude Hull (based on the novel by)
Frances Marion (screen adaptation)
Fred De Gresac (screen adaptation)
George Marion Jr. (titles)
Men and women, fathers and children. 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. Among the cutthroats is Ghobah, a villainous Moor to whom Yasmin is promised. In 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 sheik, 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 sheik say about his son consorting with a dancing girl?
Released Date:
1928-11-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
8.4 (4291 Reviews)
Director:
Victor SjèstrèmFrances Marion (scenario)
Dorothy Scarborough (from the novel by)
Innocent and naive Letty Mason moves from her Virginia home to Sweet Water on the western prairies to live on the ranch of her cousin Beverly, his wife Cora and their three children. Letty quickly learns how inhospitable the environment in Sweet Water is, the most obvious item being the incessant wind. But equally inhospitable are the unrefined way the people in Sweet Water live to which she is unaccustomed, and Cora, who believes Letty has come to steal Beverly away from her. As such, Cora orders Letty out of her and Bev's house. With no money, Letty is forced to accept one of the marriage proposal she receives, the lesser evil being that from Bev and Cora's ranching neighbor, Lige Hightower, a man who she does not love. Despite a less than harmonious start, Letty, in part due to her isolation as she is more often than not forced to stay inside due to the wind, begins to have affection for Lige, who wants to do right by her, and who promises to send her back to Virginia when he is financial able. But a visitor who takes refuge in their house away from the wind may threaten Letty's ultimate happiness.
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