The Virgin of Stamboul

Mar 27, 1920

1h 10m

★ 5.8

Overview

Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl. However, a brave American who loves her comes to her rescue.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Universal Film Manufacturing Company

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Cast

Sari - a beggar girl

Priscilla Dean

Capt. Carlisle Pemberton

Wheeler Oakman

Sheik Achmet Hamid

Wallace Beery

His emissary

Clyde Benson

Yusef Bey

E. Alyn Warren

Capt. Kassan

Nigel De Brulier

Hector Baron

Edmund Burns

Agia - Sari's Mother

Eugenie Forde

Resha - the Sheik's favorite wife

Ethel Ritchie

Undetermined role

Yvette Mitchell

Blind Beggar (uncredited)

C.E. Collins

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