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A businessman's ambition blinds him t the needs of the daughter in this British drama. He calls his great scheme for becoming the richest man around, "Operation X." In order to succeed he must be able to have access to a rare substance found only in a particular Middle Eastern country, but to get it he must curry favor with the sheik who runs it. He decides that the best way to accomplish this is to betroth his daughter to the sheik's son. Unfortuantely for him, his daughter is already engaged to a newspaper reporter who has been investigating the business dealings of her father. The ruthless businessman learns about the fiance's snooping and gets him fired. He then continues with his scheme until his wife intervenes on her daughter's behalf. Her pleading falls on deaf ears and she is forced to play her shocking trump card.