74% (2) The Son of the Sheik 68 min, PASSED, [Adventure, Drama, Romance] [George Fitzmaurice] [05 Sep 1926]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, Rotten Tomatoes: 75%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: George Fawcett, Montagu Love, Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky
Writer: Edith Maude Hull (based on the novel by), Frances Marion (screen adaptation), Fred De Gresac (screen adaptation), George Marion Jr. (titles)
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Plot: 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?
Rotten Tomatoes: The Son of the Sheik, Rudolph Valentino's last film, may well be his best. A sequel to (and vast improvement upon) Valentino's 1922 blockbuster The Sheik, the 1926 film casts the legendary Latin Lover in the dual role of the now-older Sheik and his son Ahmed. The latter falls in love with bejeweled dancing girl Yasmin (Vilma Banky), the daughter of a scurrilous thief, who in turn is in cahoots with Ghabah (Montagu Love), "whose crimes outnumber the desert sands." Captured, held for ransom and tortured by Ghabah, Ahmed escapes, seething with revenge. Believing that Yasmin has betrayed him, he kidnaps the girl, spirits her away to his desert tent, and rapes her (not shown, of course, but brilliantly suggested by a series of wide-eyed, soft-focus close ups). Bitterly chastised by his father, Ahmed begins feeling pangs of remorse for his treatment of Yasmin, even more so when he learns that she is innocent of all wrongdoing. He follows Yasmin to her father's den of thieves, where he vanquishes all the bad guys, saving the unspeakable Ghabah for last. Son of the Sheik was partially filmed on location in the deserts of Yuma, Arizona, under intolerable conditions that caused virtually the entire cast and crew to fall seriously ill. The finished film manages to convey a tongue-in-cheek, larger-than-life approach to its melodramatic material without ever actually making fun of that material or condescending to Valentino's legions of fans. Rudolph Valentino had made Son of the Sheik in hopes of boosting his slightly flagging career; while it succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams, Valentino, alas, had died just before the film was released. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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78% (1) Tillie the Toiler N/A, [Comedy, Drama] [Hobart Henley] [05 Jun 1927]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 78%, External Reviews
Actors: George Fawcett, Harry Crocker, Marion Davies, Matt Moore
Writer: Agnes Christine Johnston (story), Edward T. Lowe Jr. (story), Ralph Spence (titles), Russ Westover (character), A.P. Younger
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Plot: N/A
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78% (1) Spring Fever 78 min, [N/A] [Edward Sedgwick] [22 Oct 1927]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 78%, External Reviews
Actors: George Fawcett, George K. Arthur, Joan Crawford, William Haines
Writer: Frank Davis, Vincent Lawrence (play), Albert Lewin, Ralph Spence (titles)
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Plot: To impress a wealthy young woman, a clerk pretends he is a pro-golfer.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this lively sports comedy, a 13-year-old rising star on the tennis circuit struggles to make the grade, but finds her way impeded among her snooty colleagues because her mother is a Vegas showgirl.
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74% (1) Lady of the Pavements 85 min, [Drama] [D.W. Griffith] [01 Jan 1929]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, External Reviews
Actors: Albert Conti, George Fawcett, Jetta Goudal, Lupe Velez, William Boyd
Writer: Gerrit J. Lloyd, Sam Taylor, Karl Vollmöller (novel)
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Plot: Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant hi his wish, and enlists the services of a Spanish singer/dancer from a disreputable nightclub to pose as a sophisticated, convent-educated singer, and surreptitiously arranges for her to meet Karl.
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66% (1) The Habit of Happiness N/A, [Comedy] [Allan Dwan] [12 Mar 1916]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews
Actors: Dorothy West, Douglas Fairbanks, George Fawcett, Macey Harlam
Writer: Allan Dwan, Shannon Fife
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Plot: Sunny Wiggins is convinced that laughter can cure any ailment. He tries his thesis out on a dyspeptic millionaire, to great success. He turns his attention to easing the plight of the down-and-out on skid row. In due course, he and the millionaire's daughter become entangled with a gang of ruffians, and Sunny must use more than laughter to save the day.
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61% (1) The Private Life of Helen of Troy 87 min, [Comedy] [Alexander Korda] [09 Dec 1927]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, External Reviews
Actors: George Fawcett, Lewis Stone, María Corda, Ricardo Cortez
Writer: John Erskine (novel), Gerald C. Duffy, Casey Robinson (titles), Robert E. Sherwood (play), Carey Wilson
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Plot: Queen Helen of Troy ( María Corda ), piqued by her husband's lack of interest in her, elopes with Paris ( Ricardo Cortez ) to Sparta. Menelaus ( Lewis Stone ), her husband, egged on by his henchman, starts a war with Paris, finally effecting the return of Helen. The time-honored custom demands that he have the pleasure of killing her, but her seductive loveliness restrains him. And so at the end of the story, we find Helen engaging in a new flirtation with the Prince of Ithaca. Moving Picture World, 1927.
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