A Cafe in Cairo

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A Cafe in Cairo
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Directed by Chester Withey
Written by Izola Forrester
Harvey Gates
Produced by Hunt Stromberg
Charles R. Rogers
Starring Priscilla Dean
Robert Ellis
Carl Stockdale
Cinematography Sol Polito
Edited by Harry L. Decker
Production
company
Hunt Stromberg Productions
Distributed by Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • December 7, 1924 (1924-12-07)
Running time
60 minutes; 6 reels (5,656 feet)
CountryUnited States
Languages Silent
(English intertitles)
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A Cafe in Cairo ad in Exhibitor's Trade Review (Nov 1924-Feb 1925)

A Cafe in Cairo is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Priscilla Dean, Robert Ellis and Carl Stockdale. Hunt Stromberg produced it for release by the recently established Producers Distributing Corporation. [1] [2] It was part of a wave of films with Middle Eastern settings which followed on from the success of Paramount's The Sheik in 1921.

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Synopsis

When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encampment, their young daughter is spared and brought up as an Arab known as Nadia. The bandit who killed Nadia's parents wishes to marry her. She is ordered to steal some documents from a British secret service agent but falls in love with him, and refuses to help the bandit. He threatens to throw both her and her lover into the Nile, before he is killed. Nadia and her lover return to England.

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Preservation

With no prints of A Cafe in Cairo located in any film archives, [3] it is a lost film.

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