Tagline: A story of honor that made him a criminal.. and made the criminal a national hero. Khattab works in a quarry to marry Fouton, daughter of Sheikh Yassin. Every Thursday he returns to his village for his mother and fiancée. One day a collapse closes the quarry early, his return uncovers his mother's betrayal with a young man. He takes revenge but to protect her name, claims the man was a thief. The law sees only a murderer. In prison he meets Mansour El-Minyawi, saves him from murder, both are transferred for retrial when their lorry overturns in the mountains. They escape. Will Khattab stay a fugitive or become a legend? The secret of the dark mountains and the British train is why the occupation banned this film in 1932.

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Cast

Zaki Rostom

خطاب / الخط

Olwiya Gamil

فتون / خطيبة خطاب

Dawlat Abiad

أم خطاب

Soliman Naguib

منصور القناوى

Abdel Warith Assir

الشيخ ياسين / ابو فتون

Seraj Muneer

جبر القناوى

Said Abou Bakr

بدار

Samira Kholosi

كاتبة الجريده

Edmond Tuima

جاك

Hussein Asar

خال خطاب

Lotfi El Hakim

مدبولى الخضرى

Mohamed Abdel Koddous

سعيد الشامى