A Prisoner of the Harem

Alice Durand, after weeks of discouragement, reads the following advertisement in the New York Herald: "Governess wanted. Young American woman, well educated and speaking French and German, may obtain lucrative position with prominent Egyptian. Fare and expenses will be advanced. Write, enclosing photograph, to Mahmoud Pasha, Sphinx Club, Cairo, Egypt." Answering the advertisement, Alice seven weeks later, secures the position and leaves her New York boarding-house for Egypt.

Robert G. Vignola

Mahmoud Pasha

Gene Gauntier

Alice Durand

Alice Hollister

Zorah

J.J. Clark

Jack Howard

• Sidney OlcottDirector
• E. Alexander PowellWriter

Release date

July 19, 1912

Status

Released

Original language

English

Rated

NR

Genres

Drama, Romance