Dark Waters

1956

DramaRomanceActionThriller

Ragab, a poor sailor, returns home to Alexandria after three years of absence, during which he tried to save money to marry his one true love, Hamedah. But there's trouble on the harbor, and with an old friend.

"Struggle in the Pier"

Rating

6.2
13 votes

Popularity

0.6416

Origin & Countries

EG | ar | Egypt

Production

Gabriel Talhami Film

Runtime

120 min.

Status

Released

Release: 1/16/1956

Credits

Dark Waters

Youssef ChahineDirector

Dark Waters

Faten HamamaHamedah

Dark Waters

Omar SharifRagab

Dark Waters

Ahmed RamzyMamdouh

Dark Waters

Tawfiq Al-DeqenEzzat

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

3/27/2022

6 / 10

There is something about watching Omar Sharif in this - a bit like Sophia Loren and Ingrid Bergman he seems to actually radiate; and the camera loves it... That is just as well, really, because this is not particularly great piece of cinema. "Ragab" has been working at sea for three years before he returns to Egypt and to his bride-to-be Faten Hamamah ("Hamedah") who, in his absence, has had to make a living as best she can, living with his mother, near the harbour. He returns to great uncertainty about jobs and to a friendship between his fiancée and the son of the local bigwig "Mamdouh" (Ahmed Ramzy) that he suspects is far more! Though there is love between them - there is certainly an on-screen chemistry - "Ragab" is a rather a hot-tempered man and it isn't long before his suspicions manifest themselves in a much more physical fashion. The love-triangle story is pretty old-hat, but I have to say that although the fisticuffs are very much the stuff of a school play; the treatment of "Hamedah" as a glorified chattel made me wonder why she didn't just tell him to get lost early on... The version I saw was well enough subtitled, and the story moves along quickly enough but in the end I just didn't much care for any of the characters; they contrived a situation that made a violent resolution the only real possibility and by that time I felt that they all just about deserved each other.

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