One Stolen Night

Mar 15, 1929

0h 58m

★ 0.0

Overview

When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Sudan, a British soldier takes the blame for him. He winds up deserting his post and joining up with a traveling vaudeville troupe. He falls in love with a pretty young woman in one of the show's acts but finds that a local Arab sheik has his own plans for the young girl.

Genres

Action

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Jeanne

Betty Bronson

Blossom

Mitchell Lewis

Blazer

Harry Todd

Doad

Charles Hill Mailes

Chyra

Nina Quartero

Madame Blossom

Rose Dione

Abou-Ibu-Adam

Otto Lederer

The Dwarf

Angelo Rossitto

Brandon

Jack Santoro

The Sheik

Harry Schultz

Bob

William Collier Jr.

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