Her Purchase Price (1919)
Hamid-Ali, an Arab chieftain and bandit, captures an English baby during a raid on a caravan and, naming her Sheka, puts her in a harem to be prepared for the slave auction. At the auction, Sir Derek Anstruther, who has fallen in love with Sheka, disguises himself as an Arab and bids for her.
- Date of release
- 1919-09-01
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Howard Hickman
Casting
- Bessie Barriscale — Sheka
- Alan Roscoe — Sir Derek Anstruther
- Joseph J. Dowling — Hamid-Ali
- Kathlyn Williams — Diana Vane
- Stanhope Wheatcroft — George Vincent
- Irene Rich — Marda
- Henry Kolker — Duke of Wryden
- Wedgwood Nowell
- Una Trevelyn
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