The Virgin of Stamboul

When emir Wallace Beery spies one of his wives having an affair with an American, he kills him and casts her aside. To replace her, he chooses Priscilla Dean, a street dancer whose fiery temperament an desire to worship in Hagia Sophia -- which is forbidden to women -- excites his unspeakable lust. Miss Dean is also loved by American Wheeler Oakman, and the plot, filled with camels, henchmen with blades, and similar exotic paraphernalia, proceeds on its way.

It's a Universal Jewel production, which means it was one of their major pictures, and as Miss Dean's fifth collaboration with Tod Browning, it clearly spares little expense in costuming and set design. It's a lot of fun, and it's a pleasure to see Miss Dean with her new husband, Oakman, whose looks reminded me of John Wayne. While Miss Dean's career was over by the mid-1930s, Oakman continued to work, half the time with no screen credit, often as a henchman. He died in 1949, aged 59.