A Sultana of the Desert (1915)
Jean, the daughter of Martine, the French exporter, loves Christoph and the love is requited. However, Jeans father objects to the two lovers meeting. He discovers the trysting place of Jean and Christoph. Taking home his daughter, he orders her to prepare for a journey. Before Martine and his daughter leave, Jean writes Christoph as follows: '"Good-bye; they are taking me to a convent." Martine's servant sees Jean give the maid this note, follows her to Christoph's shop, where he overcomes Christoph and knocks him unconscious with a blow. He then takes Christoph to a dungeon beneath Martine's home. Jean and her father cross the desert with a caravan of camels. In the meantime, Christoph comes to his senses, wrenches loose a bar in the dungeon window and escapes. He again encounters Jean's maid, who tells him where Jean has been taken. After Jean has been placed in the convent, she escapes and in time reaches a cave in the desert, where she makes friends with a lion. Christoph has also crossed the desert, has visited the convent and is told that Jean is no longer there. He returns to the desert in search of Jean. Word reaches Jean's father that she has disappeared, and he engages Balsamo, the Bedouin pirate of the desert, to search for Jean. Balsamo follows Jean's trail, discovers her, and shoots and kills the mate of the lion, which has become Jean's pet. He then forces Jean to accompany him. In another oasis, Balsamo attacks Jean, but the lion enters and kills the bandit. Christoph, in search of Jean, arrives on the desert and finds her alive, with her pet lion. Jean's father, hearing nothing of his daughter, also starts a search for her, and arrives on the oasis. He shoots and kills the pet lion, and Jean coming upon him, tells him how the lion saved her life.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Tom Santschi | Director |
| Kathlyn Williams | Writer |
| William Nicholas Selig | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Kathlyn Williams | |
| Tom Santschi | |
| Theodore Bates | |
| Josephine Rice |
