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. 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.

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)
Country	United States
Languages	Silent (English intertitles)

A Cafe in Cairo ad in Exhibitor's Trade Review (Nov 1924-Feb 1925)

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, it is a lost film.

External links

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