The Mind is on a Vacation

The Mind is on a Vacation

1947 · 120 min · ★ 10.0 · Drama, Music

When a rich young man meets and falls for an aristocratic girl, he claims that he's a driver in order to get a job with her family. He finds that she is engaged to a fraudulent young man who's after her money, and that she is in fact trying to save her family from bankruptcy.

Directed by Helmy Rafla · Written by Youssef Gohar

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