Arabian Love

Arabian Love
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Directed by Jerome Storm
Written by Jules Furthman
Starring John Gilbert
Barbara Bedford
Barbara La Marr
Cinematography Joseph H. August
Distributed by Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • April 9, 1922 (1922-04-09)
Running time
 50 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Arabian Love is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Jerome Storm. It is not known whether the film currently survives.[1]

Plot

Shortly after marrying a man, Nadine Fortier travels through the desert to a distant city to visit her dying mother. On her way, she is kidnapped by a group of bandits, who use her when gambling. Nadine eventually becomes the property of Norman Stone, an American criminal who is on the run from the police. Norman helps her to safety and they plan on crossing ways. Nadine, however, contacts him to find her husband's murderer.

Themar, the daughter of a sheik, is jealous of Norman's interest in Nadine and she tells Nadine that Norman is responsible for her father's death. Upon confronting him, Norman admits that her husband had several clandestine meetings with his sister and that he was accidentally shot to death in his presence. Although she is initially mad, their love for each other proves to be more powerful. They eventually become a couple and leave the country for America.[2]

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Cast

Production and release

Arabian Love was made to profit on the success of The Sheik (1921), a film which romanticizes sheiks and Latin lovers.[3] Most films John Gilbert made at Fox Film Corporation flopped, but Arabian Love became a great success. Gilbert was praised for his portrayal of a sheik, but the actor himself loathed it and made sure he later would not appear again in that sort of character.[4] Barbara La Marr was praised by the critics too, with the film magazine Moving Picture World stating that "the forlorn lovesickness of the sheik’s daughter [is] unusually effective".[5]

References

  1. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Arabian Love at silentera.com
  2. ↑ "Arabian Love (1922)". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
  3. ↑ McLaren, A., Sexual Blackmail: a Modern History. p. 161
  4. ↑ "Review Summary". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
  5. ↑ "The Legendary Barbara La Marr". Classic Images. Retrieved 2010-01-14.


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