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The Sheik (1921) on Blu-ray

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TSBR1921
Actor : Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Adolphe Menjou, Walter Long, Lucien Littlefield
Director: George Melford
Genre: Action/Adventure
Year: 1921
Studio: Kino Lorber
Length: 75 min
Released: May 30, 2017
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc: NTS
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A

DESCRIPTION:

Hollywood's first male sex symbol, Rudolph Valentino, appears in his most iconic roles in The Sheik (1921). Agnes Ayres stars as Lady Diana Mayo, a headstrong Western woman who infiltrates the private party of the handsome Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan (Valentino). When the Sheik later encounters Diana in the desert, he abducts her and takes her to his sumptuous lair. Unable to resist the Sheik's cruel magnetism, Diana's defiant nature crumbles and she begins to develop affectionate feelings for her captor. The Sheik plays upon a long tradition of Orientalism in Western art, which romanticized the sands of Northern Africa as a hotbed or seduction and captivity.

Special Features: Audio Commentary by Gaylyn Studlar, author of This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age and co-editor of Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film | Archival footage taken at Rudolph Valentino's funeral | Original theatrical trailer of Valentino's Blood and Sand (1922)
Actor : Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Adolphe Menjou, Walter Long, Lucien Littlefield
Director: George Melford
Genre: Action/Adventure
Year: 1921
Studio: Kino Lorber
Length: 75 min
Released: May 30, 2017
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc: NTS
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A

DESCRIPTION:

Hollywood's first male sex symbol, Rudolph Valentino, appears in his most iconic roles in The Sheik (1921). Agnes Ayres stars as Lady Diana Mayo, a headstrong Western woman who infiltrates the private party of the handsome Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan (Valentino). When the Sheik later encounters Diana in the desert, he abducts her and takes her to his sumptuous lair. Unable to resist the Sheik's cruel magnetism, Diana's defiant nature crumbles and she begins to develop affectionate feelings for her captor. The Sheik plays upon a long tradition of Orientalism in Western art, which romanticized the sands of Northern Africa as a hotbed or seduction and captivity.

Special Features: Audio Commentary by Gaylyn Studlar, author of This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age and co-editor of Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film | Archival footage taken at Rudolph Valentino's funeral | Original theatrical trailer of Valentino's Blood and Sand (1922)
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