01 July 1912
An English doctor based in Egypt finds his wife in the arms of a local diplomat, and in a madness-induced frenzy departs for the desert. After being discovered by wandering Bedouins, Dr. Cochran embraces their practices and begins to fall in love with Zeinab, the daughter of a Sheik. Tragedy ensues when his forgotten wife visits the village and beckons him to take her back.
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Gene Gauntier as Miriam — the Doctor's Wife
Robert G. Vignola as The Flirtatious Malmoud Bey
Alice Hollister as Zenab, The Arab Girl
J.P. McGowan as The Arab Sheik
Jack J. Clark as Dr. Franklin Cochran
Sidney Olcott Director
United States 01 July 1912
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1912:
19 July 1912
Alice Durand, after weeks of discouragement, reads the following advertisement in the New York Herald: "Governess wanted.
26 February 1912
Two businessmen need to hire a stenographer, but their wives get suspicious when they notice a parade of beautiful young women entering and leaving their husbands' office.
16 August 1912
Max is doing the Tango with Miss Leonora in a Berlin night club. Being impressed by the performance a german Baron asks him to give his family a dancing lesson.
15 October 1912
While in his cups, an older gentleman buys a surprise for his family—one that eats peanuts and weighs 11,000 pounds.
21 May 1912
Silas Croft was a kindly old Englishman who had a farm in South Africa. With him resided his two nieces, whom he had taken from their drunken, worthless father when they were of a tender age.
23 October 1912
Naughty children steal an anatomy-class papier-mâché skeleton and use it to play pranks on people around town.
04 April 1912
The girl was young, pretty, and also a good businesswoman; When her father died she took up the reins of management and ran an orange grove with successful results.
23 December 1912
Robert Ffolliott is a young Irish lad who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony in Australia following false accusations by the greedy Kinchella.
01 January 1912
An Orthodox rabbi deals with personal tragedies and an increasingly secular world.
08 June 1912
The prologue shows the life of a trapper, living in the solitude of the forest. He digs a bear trap, which is covered with boughs and grass.
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