Collectible Movie Posters - 1923

The Shriek of Araby , 1923 March 5

Because he is too handsome, a publicist for the film The Sheik, who has been riding a horse around town dressed as the title character, loses his job to a bill poster. The bill poster dozes while riding his horse and dreams of desert adventures in which the handsome man he replaced is an Arab prince who goes on a vacation and turns his throne over to the bill poster. The action closely follows that of The Sheik, but just as the bill poster rides away with his bride, he awakes to find himself in the presence of a traffic cop. AFI

Film status: extant