In commemoration of the passing of Ron West we will screen “Son of the Sheik” the first silent film screened by him at the Majestic Theatre Pomona back in the early 1980’s.
SYNOPSIS – In his final film performance before his death in 1926, Rudolph Valentino tackles two roles, as a father and his son. Ahmed (Rudolph Valentino) the son of an Arab sheik and a kidnapped English gentlewoman (Agnes Ayres), loves local dancing girl Yasmin (Vilma Banky). When he slips out of his father’s heavily guarded compound to woo her, he is kidnapped and held for ransom by a group of bandits led by Yasmin’s father (George Fawcett) and Ghabah (Montaug Love), the Moor to whom she is betrothed.
Ron West played this film at the Majestic Theatre Pomona over 4000 times and it was instrumental in solidifying the theatre as a silent movie house.
Chris Rose our resident organist will accompany the movie live on the 1937 Compton Organ.
Doors and bar open at 11am. Movie screens at 12 noon. Tickets $15 and free for kids 13 and under. No need to book get your tickets at the door.