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1924 film by Chester Withey

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 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.

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.

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v t e Films directed by Chester Withey
The Devil's Needle (1916) The Old Folks at Home (1916) The Wharf Rat (1916) An Alabaster Box (1917) Madame Bo-Peep (1917) Nearly Married (1917) The Bad Boy (1917) A Woman's Awakening (1917) In Pursuit of Polly (1918) The Hun Within (1918) On the Quiet (1918) Little Comrade (1919) The New Moon (1919) Maggie Pepper (1919) The Teeth of the Tiger (1919) Romance (1920) She Loves and Lies (1920) Coincidence (1921) Lessons in Love (1921) Wedding Bells (1921) Heroes and Husbands (1922) Outcast (1922) Domestic Relations (1922) Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923) A Cafe in Cairo (1924) The Pleasure Buyers (1925) Going the Limit (1926) The Impostor (1926) Her Honor, the Governor (1926) Queen o'Diamonds (1926) Secret Orders (1926) The Bushranger (1928)

Films directed by Chester Withey

The Devil's Needle (1916)
The Old Folks at Home (1916)
The Wharf Rat (1916)
An Alabaster Box (1917)
Madame Bo-Peep (1917)
Nearly Married (1917)
The Bad Boy (1917)
A Woman's Awakening (1917)
In Pursuit of Polly (1918)
The Hun Within (1918)
On the Quiet (1918)
Little Comrade (1919)
The New Moon (1919)
Maggie Pepper (1919)
The Teeth of the Tiger (1919)
Romance (1920)
She Loves and Lies (1920)
Coincidence (1921)
Lessons in Love (1921)
Wedding Bells (1921)
Heroes and Husbands (1922)
Outcast (1922)
Domestic Relations (1922)
Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923)
A Cafe in Cairo (1924)
The Pleasure Buyers (1925)
Going the Limit (1926)
The Impostor (1926)
Her Honor, the Governor (1926)
Queen o'Diamonds (1926)
Secret Orders (1926)
The Bushranger (1928)

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