This is not only the flagship of Valentino's film, capturing Valentino at his prime, it is the most beautifully photographed. The camera was stationary on the tripod for the filming of this jewel, so they could literally focus on everything else. The tinting added a hint of the time of day and visual contrast. By the time of The Son of Sheik ten years later, the cinematographer was expected to pan and move the camera and apparently this was so hard to do with the available equipment at the time that they lost control of the details of beautiful filming.
The inter-titles are also magnificent in this film.
The inter-titles are also magnificent in this film.