Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Pickering Mastermind Brit arrives by air on phony passport, Fact2: Ali pretends to be indifferent to unconditional love shown to him by penniless hard-luck nice girl belly dancer, Fact3: boys go through sewer as planned, Fact4: alarm inside is triggered museum, Fact5: robbers that evening exchange jewels for money
Output (English): Mastermind Brit criminal Major Pickering arrives in Cairo by air from a Greek prison, on a phony passport. The Major has a fullproof scheme to rob King Tuts jewels, which are displayed in the secure Cairo Museum and worth to the robbers a quarter of a million dollars. Through his contact man Nicodemos, the shady casino operator brother of the Majors con artist passport illustrator Greek cellmate, he rounds up a disparate gang to execute the daring heist. The only gang member known to the Major is the reliable countryman and fellow soldier, an explosive expert safecracker, Willy John Meillon, now a family man, marrying native and reluctant to go on the caper until persuaded by a fast 25,000 cut. Nicodemos gets untrustworthy importexport businessman Kuchuk to finance the caper, while the Major hires lazy coffee shop owner Kerim as driver and his hashish smoking hotheaded gunwielding smalltime stickup man Ali as his enforcer. Ali looks upon it as his last chance to buy a sugar cane farm in his country birthplace, and pretends to be indifferent to the unconditional love shown to him by the penniless hardluck nice girl belly dancer Amina. The boys go through the sewer as planned, but inside the museum an alarm is accidentally triggered and brings the police before they can make a clean escape. It results in Willy being fatally shot and dropped off at home. When the robbers that evening go to exchange the jewels for the money, Kuchuk and his gun wielding accomplice Ghattas pull a doublecross, and in an ensuing shootout Ghattas is dead and Ali seriously wounded, with Kuchuk now forced by the Major to make a deal with the police for 200,000 or they will melt down the invaluable jewels. When the frightened Nicodemos is intimidated by the persistent police commandant and Kuchuk commits suicide, the rest of the gang is rounded up before they can escape from Cairo—with Ali dying in Aminas arms just as they reach by car his fathers farm and the Major captured alive when staying too long to admire a belly dancer as the police raid the area.