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Messaoud, an Arabian land owner, meeting Aicha, the beautiful daughter of a neighbor, takes advantages of the law allowing him more than one wife and marries her. The new bride forces ... See full summary
Messaoud, an Arabian land owner, meeting Aicha, the beautiful daughter of a neighbor, takes advantages of the law allowing him more than one wife and marries her. The new bride forces Flouka, Messaoud's first wife, to become her servant. Flouka rebels and is being roughly treated by Messaoud when an American, passing by, interferes. He takes Flouka with him as his housekeeper. Some time later Messaoud calls upon the American and assures him that he bears him no ill will. While the men are drinking together Messaoud poisons the American's drink. But he has been observed by Flouka and, seeing an opportunity to be revenged upon Messaoud and at the same time save her defender's life, she reverses the position of the drinks, making Messaoud the victim of his own treachery.

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    • Author: Cezel
    A Kabyle is a native of the mountains of North Africa, the unconquered remnant whom the Arabs could not even in the vigor of their first conquest, subdue. They are Mohammedans, and in this picture one cannot tell the Kabyle from the Arab. It was produced and photographed in Africa and tells a fairly dramatic story that is not fresh. The acting is not wholly natural, but there is one very vigorous scene. In it a woman is hitched with a donkey and made to draw the plow for her wrathful lord, the Kabyle. The scenes are colored by hand, and some of them are pretty. - The Moving Picture World, March 29, 1913
  • Credited cast:
    Paul Franck Paul Franck - Messaoud
    Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
    Léontine Massart Léontine Massart
    Valentine Tessier Valentine Tessier
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