The Scimitar of the Prophet (1913)
Overview
While touring Egypt, Harris and his wife visit an old temple and are fascinated by a sacred scimitar, which, at the corner of a shrine, is religiously guarded by Hadjji, a Mohammedan priest. The wife is a curio fiend, and demands that Harris secure the scimitar, but the husband, having read in his guidebook that the scimitar was supposedly presented to the prophet in a vision and that the vengeance of Allah will follow whosoever disturbs it, begs her to abandon the foolish idea. She insists. That night Harris enters the temple with a rope ladder, steals the scimitar and escapes.
Cast
Earle Foxe
Harris - a Tourist
Alice Hollister
Doris Harris - his wife
Robert G. Vignola
Hadjji - a Mohammedan Priest
Henry Hallam
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