Life or Death

Year: 1954

Runtime: 95 mins

Language: Arabic

Director: Kamal El Sheikh

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After suffering a heart attack, a man asks his daughter to get medicine. The pharmacist who gives her the prescription realizes he has unintentionally mixed a poisonous elixir into the drug. He alerts the authorities, prompting Cairo’s chief police officer to launch a campaign to retrieve the antidote and prevent the fatal dose from reaching patient.

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