A Cafe in Cairo

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.

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.

Cast

Priscilla Dean as Naida
Robert Ellis as Barry Braxton
Carl Stockdale as Jaradi
Evelyn Selbie as Batooka
Harry Woods as Kali
John Steppling as Tom Hays
Marie Crisp as Rosamond
Carmen Phillips as Gaza
Larry Steers as Colonel Alastair-Ker
Ruth King as Evelyn
Vincente Orona as Sadek

Preservation

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

References

^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: A Cafe in Cairo
^ Progressive Silent Film List: A Cafe in Cairo at silentera.com
^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: A Cafe in Cairo

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to A Cafe in Cairo.

A Cafe in Cairo at IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie
Lobby card at Getty Images