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Fires of Fate
Also known as The Desert Sheik in the USA
(1923) England
B&W : Seven reels / 7200 feet
Directed by Tom Terriss

Cast: Wanda Hawley [Corinne Adams], Nigel Barrie [Major Egerton], Pedro de Cordoba [Prince Ibrahim], Edith Craig [Miss Adams], Arthur Cullen [Sir Charles Roden], Stewart Rome [Reverend Roden], Douglas Munro [Mansoor], Percy Standing [Stephen Belmont], Cyril Smith [Lord Howard Cecil], Hamed El Gabrey [Emir, the desert sheik]

[?] A.C. Bromhead Productions or Gaumont British Picture Corporation? production; distributed by Gaumont British Picture Corporation. / Produced by A.C. Bromhead and R.C. Bromhead. Scenario by Alicia Ramsey (Alice Ramsey), from the novel A Desert Drama, Being The Tragedy of the Korosko by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Cinematography by A. St. Aubyn Brown and H.W. Bishop. Film editor, Arthur Hoerl. Intertitles written by Arthur Hoerl. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in Germany in July 1924. The film was released in the USA at six reels (5700 feet) as The Desert Sheik (1924) by Truart Film Corporation through Film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated [FBO] on 21 July 1924, and © 14 June 1924 in the USA by Truart Film Corporation [LP20307].

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown) [United Kingdom]; Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

Listing updated: 23 June 2009.

References: Butler-Cinema pp. ?; Montgomery-Comedy p. ?; Pohle-Holmes p. 21 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

 
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