- Mahmoud Baroudi, the rich Egyptian at the story's center, is an Oriental seducer who beguiles the heroine into slowly poisoning her English husband and casts her off when the scheme collapses - Egypt figuring as the place where a white woman is corrupted and destroyed.
Bella Donna (1915)
film
Egyptianscatalogued, not screened by the author
- Distributor
- LASKY
- Cast
- Pauline Frederick, Thomas Holding, Julian L’Estrange
- Production notes
- Silent. Notes from AFIC. Adapted from the book by Robert Hichens