The Man from Egypt
About The Man from Egypt
Bellhop Hughey gets a ruby, the eye of the god Ammet, and uses it to meet a millionaire and his daughter. A sheik who has sworn not to eat, drink, or sleep until the stone is back finds Hughey at dinner. A chase follows. The sheik takes the ruby. Hughey gets it again. Hughie Mack plays Hughey.
Cast & crew
More about The Man from Egypt
Larry Semon directed. Charles Graham Baker wrote it. Vitagraph released it in 1916. Jewell Hunt, John Flatow, Harry Hammill, Kate Price, and William Shea are on the catalog cast. A Commons copy carries Dutch intertitles.
Themes
Preservation
A Dutch-intertitled copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The vow is that the sheik will not eat until the eye is back in the shrine.
- The dinner with the daughter is where the chase starts.
- The Commons file is a Dutch-titled print, De Egyptenaar.
Scenes
- The sheik walks in on Hughey's dinner, and the ruby goes back and forth in the chase.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Man from Egypt)
