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.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: A Cafe in CairoProgressive Silent Film List: A Cafe in Cairo at silentera.com 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.
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Preservation With no prints of A Cafe in Cairo located in any film archives,The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: A Cafe in Cairo it is a lost film.
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Lobby card at Getty Images