The Arab (1924)
Jamil, a soldier in the Bedouin defense forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, deserts his regiment but later returns to save children of a missionary’s orphanage who are at risk of being enslaved or killed by the Turks.
- Date of release
- 1924-07-13
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Rex Ingram
Casting
- Ramon Novarro — Jamil Abdullah Azam
- Alice Terry — Mary Hilbert
- Max Maxudian — The Governor
- Jean de Limur — Hossein
- Paul Vermoyal — Iphraim
- Hayde Chikly
Interesting facts
The Arab is a 1924 American silent drama film starring Ramon Novarro and Alice Terry, written and directed by Rex Ingram, based on a 1911 play by Edgar Selwyn.
Production background
The movie was filmed in Tunisia just before the MGM merger, and edited under the new regime. Ingram reacted negatively to the supervision of studio bosses Mayer and Thalberg. He was backed by the New York powers of Marcus Loew and Nicholas Schenck and moved to the French Riviera, where all his subsequent films were made.
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