Owner of Few Piasters

Sep 26, 1949

1h 25m

★ 0.0

Overview

The three sisters ,Siham, Nabila, Sannia inherit from their late uncle an amount of only five hundred pounds, which drives them to travel to Alexandria to search for wealthy men to marry them. They stay at a fancy hotel where they meet three rich men, where comic paradoxes and misunderstanding happen between the six of them.

Genres

Drama

Music

Romance

Comedy

Production Companies

أفلام محمد فوزي

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Cast

سمير

Mohamed Fawzi

سهام

Camelia

نبيلة

Shadia

عنتر

Ismail Yasseen

سنية

Thuraya Helmy

كمال

Salah Nazmi

والد كمال

Mohamed Abdel Koudouss

فواكة

Hind Rostom

راقصة

Nelly Mazloum

ام خضرة

Souad Ahmed

سباط افندی

Abdelaziz Hamdy

خادم العزبة

Abdel Hamid Zaki

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