This historical drama stars Maria Montez as Naila, the daughter of the monarch of a small Egyptian city on the Nile who takes over after her father is murdered. She goes on an undercover mission to find the rebel leader who is blamed for the murder. She’s captured and branded on the left arm with the “S” mark of a slave (who knew the Ancient Egyptians used the Roman alphabet?). The scene is not explicitly shown, instead giving us a close up of Maria’s pained face. There is a shot of the branded skin shown afterward, however. Maria would be the first to join the 2-time Branded Victims Club when she received the treatment in 1950’s The Thief of Venice before sadly passing away at the age of 39 a year later.
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