Cairo Station (#1273) George Eastman Detective Sam Wagner’s job is

Detective Sam Wagner’s job is never easy

Jim enacts his revenge by framing Ritzie’s lover

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the educated John Grant is no more

Cairo Station (#1273) George Eastman Detective Sam Wagner’s job isYoussef Chahine established his international reputation with this masterpiece, which, though initially a commercial failure in Egypt, would become one of the most influential and celebrated works in all of Arab cinema. The director himself stars as Kenawi, a disabled newspaper hawker whose obsession with a sultry drink seller (Hind Rostom, known as the Marilyn Monroe of Arabia) leads to tragedy of operatic proportions on the streets of Cairo.