Adel Gahrib is a widowed insurance sales man lives alone with his young daughter Nuha, whom he dotes on. He falls in love with his new neighbor Safaa, and proposes to marry her. Just when things are beginning to look up, he receives some terrible news. Desperate for a way to ensure that Nuha's future is provided for, Adel enters into a deal with another woman that seals his fate.
The first Sherlock Holmes movie to be filmed in color. This film was planned to be the first in a series of many Sherlock Holmes films starring Peter Cushing, produced by Hammer Films. The audience disapproved of a Hammer film without any monsters and failed to turn up. The planned franchise was then dropped. For his role as Sherlock Holmes he of course had to have a pipe but as Peter Cushing was either a non-smoker or didn't like the taste of the pipe, he kept a glass of milk always to h ...[Read Story ]