The Shriek of Araby is a 1923 American silent film comedy starring Ben Turpin and directed by F. Richard Jones for producer Mack Sennett, who also wrote the screenplay.

[3] Outside the Palace Theatre (a cinema showing "The Sheik") a man sits on a horse, emulating Rudolph Valentino.

He spends too much time with the girls and is reprimanded by the boss who also decides he is tired of paying the man on the horse and tells him to go back to Arabia.

The boss tells Ben to put on this arab uniform after his break... We jump to a small ship on a large sea, the SS Barnacle.

A young female artist is also on board: she sketches Mohamet, a man in arab costume.

The two men end up fighting after Ben flirts with the girl and calls the man a "camel jockey".

He lies under a palm tree on the beach and an ostrich appears between his legs, and he rides off.

Just in the nick of time another Sheik "The Prince" appears at the tent door (the original man on the horse from the beginning) saying that Ben is his honoured guest.

Two harem girls put him in a magic bag and he is instantly dressed as an arab prince.

Mohamet promises her he will help her escape and brings on Magnolia, a big scantily dressed black dancing girl.

He meets Presto at a palm tree and asks him to magic up a pond of fish.

Mohamet appears and tells him he should steal Ben's wife to be the prize of his harem.

Ben struggles to work out how to sit on the camel's hump and eventually borrows a horse instead.

He is told to wait and a strange machine grabs him when the Bandit turns a head on the shrine.

The Bandit reappears and pushes the second head down causing the column the girl is trapped on to fly sideways to the pool area where it starts to sink.

Ben and the Bandit King fight and push and pull the levers on the shrine and the girl goes up and down.