Desc: The Desert Sheik: Directed by Tom Terriss. With Wanda Hawley, Nigel Barrie, Pedro de Cordoba, Edith Craig. Corinne Adams, a young American girl touring Egypt, meets a British soldier, Maj. Egerton, in Cairo, and they fall in love. She doesn't know that the major is suffering from a terminal illness. They and some friends take a trip into the desert and are attacked by a Bedouin tribe. The women are captured and the major is knocked out and left for dead. Can British troops arrive in time to save the women from a fate worse than death?