And Rooney Mara finds just enough to play with in her two - dimensional
warrior girl role as Tiger Lily — despite the questionable Coachella headdress, pom - pom dreadlocks and ability to conveniently survive a massacre when all of her indigenous brethren are wiped out.
Specializing in ethnic
roles, Lewis spent both the silent and talkie era playing menacing gypsies (The Cuckoos, The Bohemina
Girl), Arab potentates (he was horse - loving Sheik Iderim in the 1926 version of Ben - Hur), East Indian
warriors and Native American chiefs.