Monday, August 29, 2016

Bayada (1981) - (Youssra) Egyptian one-sheet

Bayada (1981) - (Youssra) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the 1981 Ahmed Sarwat film Bayada based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Kamal Karim and starring Youssra as Bayada. Plot summary: Bayada was a waitress who took a simple delight in her village of Ma'adia; her fiancee Hassan [Rushdy Abaza] worked as a fisherman. Some foreigners came to the village who said they were looking for the body of their grandfather on the bottom of the ocean; Hassan helped them even though they were actually smuggling gold. They also hired a young diver named Khalil to help them. Hassan was suspicious and began watching them. One of them found a chest of gold and tried to hide it. Hassan notified the police, who arrested all the foreigners. It turned out Khalil was one of the police.

Cast and crew: Amal Sherif, Rushdy Abaza, Mohamed Reda, Wahid Seif, Youssra, Ahmed Sarwat, Abdel Aziz Mahmoud, Farouk Youssef, Fakri Taha, Farouq Suleiman, Naim Esa, Mohammad al-Sisi, Al-Toukhi Tawfiq





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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show (1968) - (Walt Disney Animation) Argentine one-sheet

(1961) - () one-sheet

This is a 29" x 43" Argentine one-sheet poster for the 1968 William Baudine and Ward Kimball black-and-white film The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show AKA El Mundo Maravilloso de Mickey narrated by Dean Jones.

Cast and crew: William Beaudine, Ward Kimball, Dean Jones, Walt Disney



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Maryjane (1968) - (Fabian) US one-sheet

Maryjane (1968) - (Fabian) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1968 Maury Dexter film Maryjane based on a story by Maury Dexter, Richard Gautier and Peter Marshall and starring Fabian as Phil Blake. Plot summary: Phil Blake is a high school art teacher who is framed and arrested for marijuana possession while he is trying to persuade the school principal that marijuana is not harmful.

Cast and crew: Maury Dexter, Richard Gautier, Peter Marshall, Diane McBain, Kevin Coughlin, Michael Margotta, Patty McCormack, Russ Bender, Booth Colman, Baynes Barron, Henry Hunter, Phil Vandervort, Ivan Bonar, Byron Morrow, Ward Ramsey, Bruce Mars, Steve Cory



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Minesweeper (1943) - (Richard Arlen) Argentine one-sheet

Minesweeper (1943) - (Richard Arlen) Argentine one-sheet

This is a 29" x 43" Argentine one-sheet poster closely derived from the design of the US poster for the 1943 William Berke film Minesweeper based on a screenplay by Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Maxwell Shane and starring Richard Arlen as Richard Houston. Plot summary: Richard Houston goes back into the navy under an assumed name when World War II starts, after having deserted as a navy lieutenant before the war to avoid gambling debts. In his new job he is tasked with defusing mines in San Diego Harbor as he works to keep his real identity secret.

Cast and crew: William Berke, Edward T. Lowe, Maxwell Shane, Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Russell Hayden, Guinn Williams, Emma Dunn, Charles D. Brown, Frank Fenton, Chick Chandler, Douglas Fowley, RalphSanford, Billy Nelson, Grant Withers



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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Fist of Fury III (1979) - (Bruce Li) Hong Kong poster

Bruce Fist of Fury III (1979) - (Bruce Li) Hong Kong one-sheet

This is a 20.5"x 29.5"Hong Kong poster for the 1979 To Lo Po film Fist of Fury III based on a screenplay by Lung Yueh and starring Bruce Li as Chen Shen. Plot summary: When Chen Shen returns home from a trip he finds his brother is causing trouble in town, his mother has become brokenhearted and blind and a Japanese crime boss is threatening his family.

Cast and crew: Bruce Li, Lung Yueh, Ho Chung Do, Ku Phong, Tong Yim Chen, To Lo Po, Yen Tsan Tang, Feng Ku, Michelle Yim, Chiang Hui Tsai, Lai Wang, Ping-Tsan Chang, Ling Wei Chen, Wah Cheung, Siu Loi Chow, Yeh Fang, Hsiang He, Shang He, Bao-Hsing Ho, Chi Cheng Ho



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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Love over a Volcano حب فوق البركان (Naglaa Fathy) - (1978) Egyptian one-sheet

Love over a Volcano (1978) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1978 film Love Over a Volcano written and directed by Hassan Al Imam and starring Naglaa Fathy as Ne'ma. Plot summary: Hussein [Hussein Al Imam] stole all the money belonging to his half brother Ahmed [Hussein Fahmy] so he could spend it on a dance hall girl; then Ahmed married his blind neighbor Ne'ma.

Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Naglaa Fathy, Hussein Fahmy, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Lebleba, Sa'eed Saleh, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Hassan Al Imam, Mohamed Shawky, Shafik Galal, Ibrahim Saleh, Hussein Al Imam, Mohamed El Dafrawy, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Badreia Abdel Gawad, Mokhtar El Sayed, Mohammad Shawqi, Amir Kedwani, Abdel Wahab Khalil, El Sayed Bedir





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Monday, August 22, 2016

Knight of the City فارس المدينة (Mahmoud Hemida) - (1991) Egyptian one-sheet

Knight of the City (1992) - (Mahmoud Hemida) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown designer for the 1991 Mohamed Khan film The Knight of the City AKA fares al-medina based on a story by Mohamed Khan with screenplay and dialogue by Fayez Ghaly and starring Mahmoud Hemida as Fares. Plot Summary: The film is set in Cairo in the year 1988. The filming was done in 32 days beginning 26 May 1990. It tells a complex story about the life of Fares Hassan al-Helali, a prosperous and somewhat conniving mid-level businessman dealing in currency, automobiles and real estate. His wealth comes from currency trading and the running of a number of large commercial projects. The main line of this multi-threaded plot is a conflict between Fares and another slightly more prosperous businessman and drug merchant Ahmed Al-Wezzan [Abdel Aziz Makhyoun]. As the film begins Fares worries how he will raise the five million pounds he needs to pay a debt to Ahmed. He ends up selling everything to manage it, but in the end it is Fares who triumphs in a series of tense and sometimes violent encounters.

In the beginning Fares quarrels with his ex wife Dalal [Soad Nasr] about their son [Abdel Aziz al-Qarantili]. He had separated from Dalal to live with her son Bakr [Farid Naguib Sorur], a university student, and with his new lover. This is the start of another plot line in which the son is kidnapped by Ahmed's gang, disappears, eventually becomes addicted to drugs and is then found using them and beaten up by Fares in a public bathroom.

In the beginning Fares quarrels with his ex wife Dalal [Soad Nasr] about their son [Abdel Aziz al-Qarantili]. He had separated from Dalal to live with her son Bakr [Farid Naguib Sorur], a university student, and with his new lover. This is the start of another plot line in which the son is kidnapped by Ahmed's gang, disappears, eventually becomes addicted to drugs and is then found using them and beaten up by Fares in a public bathroom.

In a moment of despair, after having lost everything to Ahmed, Fares hits an elderly pedestrian with his car and then takes him to a big hospital, checks him in as his own father and pays for his treatment. Although Fares does not know at first, the old man is in the habit of throwing himself in front of fancy automobiles so he can live comfortably for a while in a big hospital. Fares and the old opportunist find a bond of some kind and eventually become drinking buddies, replicating in a superficial way the false identities of father and son, an idea the elderly man had first broached to Fares while he was checking his "victim" into a hospital.

Soon after they establish the new bond of trust the old man confesses to Fares with startling honesty his fraudulent practice of fake victimhood. He recounts his specific encounter with Fares in detail, and explains how he had sized him up and set out to dupe him. Fares accepts this with equanimity and they remain friends. In this moment of candor with the old man, Fares also tells the nurse in attendance Hoda [Lucy] the story of their contrived relationship, makes a date to meet her and begins a relationship with her.

There is much freeway footage in and around Cairo by cinematographer Kamal Abdel Aziz as well as multiple insertions of original cuts from old Om Kolsum performances to illustrate the fondness Fares has for her music and sometimes to accentuate points in the story line with her lyrics.

Cast and crew: Mahmoud Hemida, Mohamed Khan, Aida Riad, Soad Nasr, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Hassan Hosny, Ahmed Bedir, Fayez Ghaly, Kamal Abdel Aziz, Lucy, Osman Abdel Moneim, Mohamed Metwalli, Atia Oweysi, Lotfi Labieb, Khaled El Sawy, Mahmoud Al-Lawzi, Abdel Aziz al-Qarantili, Farid Naguib Sorur



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Fish without Spines سمك بلا حسك (Duraid Lahham) - (1978) Lebanese one-sheet

Fish without Spines (1978) - (Duraid Lahham) Lebanese one-sheet

This is a 27.25" x 39.25" Lebanese poster by an unknown designer for the 1978 Samir al-Ghasini Syrian musical comedy Fish without Spines based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Duraid Lahham and Samir al-Ghasini and starring Duraid Lahham as Ghawar. Plot summary: Walid [Walid Tewfiq] left his village on the Syrian coast to go abroad looking for work and also to accumulate some money so he could marry his beloved Layla [Samia al-Jazayeria]. His return was delayed; Layla was torn between her feelings for Walid and Ghawar, who had remained in Syria.

Cast and crew: Samir al-Ghasini, Samia al-Jazayeria, Duraid Lahham, Walid Tewfiq, Karim Abu Shaqra, Nadine Khuri, Ali Diab, Ahmed Masalekhi, Adib Shahada, Mohamed Jabuli, Hassan Baghdadi, Jamil al-Abd, Jamil Eshaq, Sabah al-Jazayeri



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I Sold My Life بعت حياتي (Farid Shawqi) - (1975) Egyptian one-sheet

I Sold My Life (1975) - (Farid Shawqi) Lebanese one-sheet

This is a 26.75" x 38.5" Lebanese poster designed by an unknown artist for the 1975 Mohamed Aslan Turkish-Egyptian film I Sold My Life based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Hay Adib and starring Farid Shawqi as Farid Bey. Plot summary: Fardi Bey was a rich bank director living happily with his wife and children. He was distinguished by strong work discipline that earned him a prominent position in the business world. He met an attractive woman named Camilia who pretended to be in love with him so she could use him to get a large amount of money from the bank where he was working. In the process, in careful coordination with a network of conspirators, she disrupted his family life and destroyed his career. After losing everything Farid took his revenge.

Cast and crew: Mohamed Aslan, Farid Shawqi, Camilia, Abdel Hay Adib, Samia Shafiq, Mohamed al-Sawi, Layla Mansour, Sana' Shaheen, Gamal Hamdi, Salah Si'awi, Akram Azmi, Mahmoud Nazmi, Laila Magdi, Adel Shawkat, Aslan Isa




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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Silina سيلينا (Myriam Fares) - (2009) Lebanese one-sheet

silina (2009) - (Myriam Fares) Lebanese one-sheet

This is a 26.75" x 38.5" Lebanese poster for the 2009 Hatam Ali film Silina based on the play Hala and the King based on the 1956 Walter Lang film The King and I with story, screenplay and dialogue by Mansur Rahbani and starring Myriam Fares as Hala. Plot summary: This is a musical comedy with characters in opera masks singing and dancing in traditional costumes. The story is about a peasant girl torn between the romantic attentions of a commoner and a king.

Cast and crew: Hatam Ali, Myriam Fares, Georges Khabbaz, Duraid Lahham, Imane Rida, Ahmed AlAhmad, Bassel Khayyat, Andrea Sakkaf, Amar Omaria, Antwan Korbaj, Ayman Zidan, Nedal Segri, Rafiq Ali Ahmad, Hossam Tahsen Beek, Gerges Gabbara, Mansur Rahbani





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A Type of Woman نوع من النساء (Sameer Ghanem) - (1979) Egyptian one-sheet

A Type of Woman (1979) - (Nahed Sherif) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1978 Hassan El-Seify film A Type of Woman based on a story by Mostafa Moharram, screenplay and dialogue by Ali Salem and starring Nahed Sherif as Samia. Plot summary: The widow Samia saw a strong resemblance between Hussein [Sameer Ghanem] and her late husband Hosni and she therefore became attached to him, while Hussein saw her as a young and wealthy woman. They married. He got to know Kawsar [Safia El Emari] because they saw each other everywhere and she was the couple's only friend. A gang kidnapped Hussein thinking he was their leader Hosni, although Kawsar knew the difference because she had had a special relationship with Hosni. Hussein found out about Samia's first husband, his role as the gang leader and his relationship with her friend Kawsar.

Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Sameer Ghanem, Hassan El-Seify, Mostafa Moharram, Ali Salem, Safia El Emari, Salah Nazmi, Aly El Cherif, Ahmed El Haddad, Ahmed Bedir, Mohammad Shawqi, Ahmed Shawqi, Hossan Iliani, Nadia Shamseddine, Hassan Mostafa Ali



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Appointment with the President موعد مع الرئيس (Elham Shaheen) - (2009) Egyptian one-sheet

Appointment with the President (1990) - (Kamal Al-Shennawi) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27.25" x 38.75" Egyptian poster designed by al-Khad for the 1990 Mohamed Radi film Appointment with the President based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ahmad Al-Khatib and starring Elham Shaheen as Magda Kamel. Plot summary: With bribery, a big construction company was able to get a permit to demolish an entire residential neighborhood and to build luxury apartment towers on the site. A member of the People's Assembly (Magda Kamel) took up the cause, but during one of her meetings with the president of the republic while the People's Assembly was in session, corrupt officials asked to meet with her in Aswan to see the documents proving the corruption of the officials; they tried to spoil her case and get her removed from office for stealing the documents. The train trip to Aswan is where most of the action takes place; this is one of the great Egyptian train movies, although the poster gives no hint of that.

Cast and crew: Mohamed Radi, Ahmad Al-Khatib, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Farouk Al-Fishawy, Elham Shaheen, El Sayed Radi, Said Abdel Ghani, Saad Ardash, Ossama Abbas, Amal Ibrahim, Hanan Shawqi, Tareq Al-Nahri, Fathia Qandil, Soheil Farahat



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Saturday, August 20, 2016

Sonya and the Madman سونيا والمجنون (Naglaa Fathy) - (1977) Egyptian one-sheet

Sonya and the Madman (1977) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1977 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film Sonya and the Madman based on the 1866 Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel Crime and Punishment with screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Diab, cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh and starring Naglaa Fathy as Sonya. Plot summary: In 1940s Cairo, law student Mokhtar [Mahmoud Yassine] found a poor girl sleeping in the street named Sonya whose circumstances were driving her to vice and crime. He fell in love with her and asked her to stop being a girl of the night in exchange for his financial help. In this adaptation Mokhtar is the madman who has Raskalnikov's part in the Dostoyevsky story. Naglaa Fathy's Sonya is also Dostoyevsky's Sonya.

Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Imad Hamdi, Sa'eed Saleh, Abdel Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ibrahim Saleh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ruhia Khaled, Nazim Shaarawy, Naima Al Soghayar, Mahmoud Diab, Soheir Reda

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Friday, August 19, 2016

Valley of Memories وادي الذكريات (Shadia) - (1981) Egyptian one-sheet

Valley of Memories (1981) - (Shadia) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty for the 1981 Henry Barakat film Valley of Memories AKA wadi al-zekriat based on a story by Michel Sawaya, screenplay by Rafiq al-Saban and starring Shadia as Soad. Plot summary: Rafat [Mahmoud Kabil] married Soad despite strong family opposition and the two of them went to Syria where Soad's aunt was living. Rafat died after a critical illness and Soad worked to finance the education of her daughter Sahar [Hayat Kandeel]. This reinforced the bond of love between them. Sahar fell in love with their neighbor Walid [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] and they made plans to marry. Soad became ill but hid it from her daughter. Sahar went to Cairo to live with her rich aunt Dowlat [Leila Fawzi]. A physician decided Soad needed surgery. When Dowlat heard about this she asked Sahar to marry a wealthy boy named Adham to get the money to pay for Soad's operation. After objecting strenuously, Sahar finally agreed for her mother's sake and told Walid about her situation. Soad became upset when she heard what was happening and flew to Egypt, where she had a confrontation with Dowlat; then Dowlat regretted interfering and gave the money to Soad. Sahar went back to Walid in Syria. Happy ending!

Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Shadia, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Leila Fawzi, Imad Hamdi, Mahmoud Kabil, Hayat Kandeel, Fekry Abaza, Qadria Qadri, Hani Al-Rumani, Zafira Qatan, Mahmoud Kamel, Anwar Madkour, Michel Sawaya, Rafiq al-Saban, Abdel Moneim Bahnassy





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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Master of the World (Charles Bronson) - (1961) Egyptian one-sheet

Master of the World (1961) - (Charles Bronson) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the 1961 William Witney film Master of the World based on the 1911 novel by Jules Verne, screenplay by Richard Matheson and starring Charles Bronson as John Strock and Vincent Price as Captain Robur. Plot summary: In the late 19th century, John Strock and his fellow balloon passengers are taken hostage by Captain Robur aboard his airborne zeppelin, the Albatross.

Cast and crew: Jules Verne, Wahib Fahmy, Charles Bronson, Vincent Price, William Witney, Richard Matheson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster, David Frankham, Richard Harrison, Vito Scotti, Wally Campo, Peter Besbas, Steve Masino





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Day of the Dolphin (1973) - (George C. Scott) US insert

The Day of the Dolphin (1973) - (George C. Scott) US insert

This is a 14" x 36" US Style C insert poster designed by Tom Jung for the 1973 Mike Nichols film The Day of the Dolphin based on the 1967 novel Un animal doué de raison by Robert Merle (English translation by Helen Weaver published in 1969), screenplay by Buck Henry and starring George C. Scott as Dr. Jacob Terrell. Plot summary: For years Dr. Jake Terrell has been training a pair of dolphins at his marine institute on an island in the Pacific Ocean. After a visit from a suspicious journalist he learns the animals have been stolen for use in an assassination attempt. Jake now has the perilous task of finding his dolphins and identifying the target of the assassination.

Cast and crew: Mike Nichols, Tom Jung, Helen Weaver, xsBuck Henry, Robert Merle, George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino, John Dehner, Severn Darden, Elizabeth Wilson, William roerick, Phyllis Davis, Pat Zurica, Jon Korkes, Edward Herrmann, Leslie Charleson, Victoria Racimo, John David Carson, Willie Meyers



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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Backstreet (1976) - (Joe Pesci) Egyptian one-sheet

Backstreet (1976) - (Joe Pesci) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the 1976 film Backstreet AKA The Death Collector AKA Family Enforcer written and directed by Ralph De Vito and starring Joe Cortese as Jerry Bolanti. Plot summary: Jerry Bolanti is a hoodlum looking for underworld employment after he gets out of jail; Anthony Ladavia, an old acquaintance, gives him some work collecting debts. Jerry is effective as a debt collector but he has trouble hanging on to what he has collected.

Cast and crew: Anne Johns, Keith Davis, Joe Pesci, Joseph Cortese, Lou Criscuolo, Bobby Alto, Frank Vincent, Jack Ramage, Bob D'Andrea, Frank Ammirati, Victorial Hale, Geno Gennaro, Floyd Levine, Sal La Pera, Richard Ward



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