This is the habitual sheik story with the sexes switched. A desert beauty of Spanish ancestry suddenly loves a gay officer of the Foreign Legion and adopts the movie practice of her male prototypes, while the young Frenchman, thus captive in a Bedouin palace acts out the at-first-morose screen lady.
Richard Arlen, as the abducted officer, is sufficient for the part, and William Powell plays well the half-comedy role of hostile sheik and would-be bride-snatcher. The comedy is administered by two Americans with a movie camera, but Miss Daniels's antics dominate every episode. Much sword-play, swinging from chandeliers and tapestries, plus the movie machinery dispute the ultimate Bedouin attack, as the masculine hero engages a firing-squad. The picture is well produced and the photography is excellent, and the hero-heroine combines a mild Valentino and Fairbanks quite successfully.
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