This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Khalil and Wahib Fahmy
to promote the 1966 Fatin Abdel Wahab film Apple of their Eye.
Plot summary: Galila was a young girl who lived with her mother's
husband. He was always making her steal from the customers at a
tavern he managed, where her sister was a dancer. Galila decided to
stop stealing. One night she fled the tavern and went to a distant
village. She turned up at the home of Youssef Bey who had taken her in
to work in his home. Galila's presence soon caused many problems for
she was a beautiful girl who attracted the attention of both the
father Youssef and the son Hassan, who worked as a veterinarian, as
well as Shaaban the school superintendent who tried to rape her. They
all wanted to get close to Galila. Shaaban discoverd the truth about
Galila and she found herself surrounded by harsh language. The father
and the son fell in love with her. Galila decided to leave the farm.
Hassan was hurt. Galila returned to her mother's husband leaving an
open question at the end of the film: would she marry Hassan or not?
Cast and crew: Hind Rostom, Yehia Chahine, Fatin Abdel Wahab, Hassan Youssef, Salah Mansour, Naima Wasfy, Nahed Sabri, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Malek El Gamal, Ismail Al-Qadi, Fathi Zeki, Hassan Hussein, Fahmy Aman, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Ibrahim Al-Shami
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Wahib Fahmy
for the 1965 Chano Ureta film Blue Demon [demonio azul]
starring Blue Demon as Blue Demon [Alejandro Munoz Moreno]. In this
Mexican luchador film directed by Chano Ureta, a professor
challenges a mad scientist, who turns himself into a werewolf.
Cast and crew: Chano Urueta, Blue Demon, Jaime Fernandez, Cesar Gay, Ivonne Govea, Nathanael Leon, Altia Michel, Mario Orea, Fernando Oses, Carlos Suarez, Rosa Maria Vazquez
This is a 27" x 39" Turkish poster for the 1973 Robert Clouse
film Enter the Dragon starring Bruce Lee as Lee based on a
story by Michael Allin and Bruce Lee. Plot summary: Lee is
investigating a tournament on an island, which is being run by Han
[Kien Shih], a disgraced student of the Shaolin school who is now suspected of using the tournament as a front for
an opium business. Lee must also try to help two fellow tournament
competitors Roper [John Saxon] and Williams [Jim Kelly] get off the
island after they have gotten into bitter clashes with Han and his
men.
Cast and crew: Bruce Lee, Robert Clouse, Michael Allin, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Ahna Capri, Kien Shih, Robert Wall, Angela Mao, Betty Chung, Geoffrey Weeks, Bolo Yeung, Peter Archer, Li Jen Ho, Marlene Clark, Allan Kent, William Keller
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by an unknown
artist to promote the 1982 Don Coscarelli film The Beastmaster
adapted by Don Coscarelli and Paul Pepperman from the 1959 Andre
Norton novel, starring Marc Singer as Dar. Plot summary: Dar has been
raised in exile after escaping sacrifice as an infant to Ar, the god
of the Kingdom of Aruk. As a child he learns he the ability to
communicate telepathically with animals. When he is an adult his
people are slaughtered by a horde of barbarians called the Jun and he
vows to take revenge. On the way he assumes the task of saving a
slave girl named Kiri [Tanya Roberts] from being sacrificed by the
high priest Maax (pronounced mayax) [Rip Torn]. He then
defeats the Jun when they attack Aruk. After completing that little
job Dar sets off into the wilderness looking for more adventure
accompanied by Kiri, his friend Ruh the black tiger, his golden eagle
Sharak and his ferret Podo, who has just given birth to two baby
ferrets sired by Kodo, her mate who was killed in the fight with the
Jun. As the film ends the happy couple and their animal friends are
filmed as they stand on a picturesque sandstone desert peak, from a
helicopter that circles around them to the sounds of triumphant
strings and horns, conducted by Lee Holdridge.
Cast and crew: Don Coscarelli, Paul Pepperman, Andre Norton, Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn, John Amos, Josh Milrad, Rood Loomis, Ben Hammer, Ralph Strait, Billy Jayne, Janet DeMay, Christine Kellogg, Janet Jones, Tony Epper, Vanna Bonta, Kim Tabet
This is a 27" x 41" US poster for the 1985 Wolfgang Peterson
film Enemy Mine based on a story by Barry Longyear, screenplay
by Edward Khmara and starring Dennis Quaid as Willis E. Davidge. Plot
summary: Willis E. Davidge is a late 21st Century spacecraft fighter
pilot for the Bilateral Terran Alliance (BTA) fighting a reptilian
humanoid race called Dracs for territory in space. In a dogfight
both he and his opponent Drac pilot Jeriba Shigan [Louis Gossett Jr.]
crash on an alien world with two moons called Fyrine IV. The planet
has a breathable atmosphere with water and a population of its own
animals. The two are hostile at first but gradually become friendly,
learn to help each other survive and exchange knowledge about their
respective languages and cultures. When Jeriba has a child and dies
in childbirth, Davidge raises it with the name Zammis [Bumper
Robinson] and forms a close bond with it. This causes him to lose his
hatred of Dracs; thus the film came to be known as a story about an
unlikely friendship. The poster was criticized for failing to convey
that idea.
Cast and crew: Wolfgang Petersen, Barry Longyear, Edward Khmara, Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus, Carolyn McCormick, Bumper Robinson, Jim Mapp, Lance Kerwin, Scott Kraft, Lou Michaels, Andy Geer, Henry Stolow, Herb Andress, Danmar, Mandy Hausenberger
Pictured is a 14" x 22" Belgian poster for the 1971 Sidney Gilliat
film Endless Night based on the 1967 novel by Agatha Christie
with screenplay by Sidney Gilliat and starring Hayley Mills as Fenella
'Ellie' Thomsen. Plot summary: Ellie is a wealthy heiress who helps
her new husband Michael Rogers [Hywell Bennett] realize his dream of
owning a magnificent home at a favorite spot on England's Devon coast.
However they build on a piece of land called 'Gypsy's Acre' that is
believed to be cursed. After Ellie is killed in a horse riding
accident, Michael struggles to recover despite being haunted by her
image while new backstory details emerge about Ellie and her friend
Greta [Britt Ekland].
Cast and crew: Hayley Mills, Agatha Christie, Hywell Bennett, George Sanders, Britt Ekland, Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat, Per Oscarsson, Aubrey Richards, Ann Way, Patience Collier, Peter Bowles, Lois Maxwell, David Bauer, Helen Horton, Madge Ryan, Windsor Davies, Walter Gotell
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet made by an unknown designer for 1982
Alan Rudolph film Endangered Species based on a story by Judson
Klinger and Richard Clayton Woods and starring Robert Urich as Ruben
Castle. Plot summary: Ruben Castle is a retired police lieutenant
visiting a small town in Colorado. He gets drawn into an
investigation of the death of his friend Joe Hiatt [Paul Dooley], who
runs the local newspaper, and some mysterious instances of mutilated
cattle with suspected UFO involvement. Castle, a recovering alcoholic
who is having difficulty staying sober, falls in love with local
sherrif Harriet Purdue [JoBeth Williams] as he works with her trying
to unravel the mysteries.
Cast and crew: Alan Rudolph, Robert Urich, JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton, Peter Coyote, Marin Kanter
This is a 29" x 43" Argentine one-sheet poster designed to promote the
1941 William Beaudine film Emergency Landing AKA Robot
Pilot based on story and screenplay by Martin Mooney and starring
Forrest Tucker as Jerry Barton. Plot summary: An inventor in Arizona
named "Doc" Williams is trying with the help of his pilot friend Jerry
Barton to market a wireless remote control device that can pilot an
aircraft. They approach a millionaire named George Lambert [William
Halligan], who has his own aircraft company. Lambert likes the idea
but his daughter Betty [Carol Hughes] does not. A live test of the
device is sabotaged by foreign agents causing the test aircraft to
crash. One of the foreign agents later hijacks a Lambert aircraft
with Betty and her Aunt Maude aboard. This time Doc and Jerry have
perfected the remote control device, which they use to land the stolen
aircraft and capture the foreign agent.
Cast and crew: William Beaudine, Martin Mooney, Forrest Tucker, Carol Hughes, Evelyn Brent, Emmett Vogan, William Hatligan, George Sherwood, Thornton Edwards, L. Stanford Jolley, Stanley Price I, Joe Hartman, Jack Lescoulie, Paul Scott, Billy Curtis
This is a 27" x 39" Spanish poster for the 1979 Sydney Pollack
film Electric Horseman based on a story by Shelly Burton with
screenplay by Robert Garland and starring Redford as Sonny Steele.
Plot summary: Sonny Steele is advertising breakfast cereal as a cowboy
in a lighted suit on a stage in Las Vegas. He is trading on a name he
made for himself as a championship rodeo performer earier in his
career, but even though the money is much better he experiences the
Las Vegas life as a comedown. He is unpleasantly surprised to
discover during rehearsal that his horse for the Las Vegas
performance, a thoroughbred racing champ named Rising Star, is injured
and drugged. Sonny decides to steal Rising Star and take him to a
remote canyon in Utah for release into a herd of wild horses. Hallie
Martin [Jane Fonda] is a television reporter who wants to go with
Sonny to cover the trip, over his vehement objections.
Cast and crew: Sydney Pollack, Robert Garland, Gaul Gaer, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson, John Saxon, Nicolas Coster, Allan Arbus, Wilford Brimley, Will Hare, Basil Hoffman, Timothy Scott, James Sikking, James Kline, Frank Speiser, Quinn K. Redeker
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster by an unknown designer for the
1984 Steve Barron film Electric Dreams starring Lenny von
Dohlen as Miles Harding based on a story by Rusty Lemorande. Plot
summary: In the early days of mass market desktop computers, Miles
Harding falls in love with his neighbor Madeline [Virginia Madsen]; he
then finds himself competing for her affection with his new computer,
Edgar [speaking in the voice of Bud Cort]. His primitive computer
expresses its jealousy using the techniques of identity theft and by
interfering with the functions of his home appliances. With help from
Miles, Edgar also learns to write songs and ultimately produces the
Miles and Madeline tribute song "Electric Dreams," which becomes a
popular hit on the radio.
Cast and crew: Steve Barron, Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, Bud Cort, Don Fellows, Alan Polonsky, Wendy Miller, Harry Rabinowitz, Miriam Margolyes, Holly De Jong, Stella Maris, Mary Doran, Diana Choy, Jim Steck, Gary Pettinger
Pictured is a 27" x 37" Mexican rerelease one-sheet designed by
Ernesto Garcia Cabral to promote the 1955 Rafael Baledon film El
Rey De Mexico based on a story by Isaac Diaz Araiza, adapted by
Luis Alcoriza and starring Adalberto Martinez as Pablo Rojas. Plot
summary: A radio station offers Pablo Rojas, a homeless man, an
opportunity to become a millionaire for a day. For one day Pablo is
given new clothes, the companionship of beautiful women, a
chauffeur-driven automobile and a fancy apartment. He is introduced to
the crowd at a bullfight, attends an opera and a horserace and
receives front-page newspaper coverage as the King of Mexico. At the
end of his day of luxury Pablo returns to his home at a shelter and
tells his friends they are not missing anything not being millionaires
since the only difference in their lives is that the millionaires have
ulcers.
Cast and crew: Rafael Baledon, Silvia Derbez, Resortes, Luis Alcoriza, Ernesto Garcia Cabral, Isaac Diaz Araiza, Adalberto Martinez, Elda Peralta, Jose Galvez, Rafael Banqells, Nicolas Rodriguez, Oscar Ortiz de Pinedo, Antonio Bravo, Conchita Gentil Arcos, Enedina Diaz de Leon, Omar Jasso, Guillermo Cramer, Jorge Mondragon, Julio Sotelo, Jose Pardave
This is a 13" x 30" Australian stone lithograph poster designed to
promote the 1972 Steven Spielberg film Duel based on story and
screenplay by Richard Matheson and starring Dennis Weaver as David
Mann. Plot summary: David Mann is an electronics salesman from Los
Angeles on a business trip in his 1971 red Plymouth Valiant sedan.
Inexplicably, he finds himself in a deadly highway confrontation with
the driver [Carey Loftin] of a 1955 Peterbilt 281 tanker truck, who
seems to be trying to kill him by running him off the road or leading
him into collisions with other vehicles. The hostile interaction
continues through several stops along the road and finally ends with a
mountain catastrophe.
Cast end crew: Dennis Weaver, Steven Spielberg, Richard Matheson, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Lou Frizzell, Gene Dynarski, Lucille Benson, Tim Herbert, Charles Seel, Shirley O'Hara, Alexander Lockwood, Amy Douglass, Dick Whittington, Carey Loftin, Dale Van Sickel
This is a 39" x 54" Italian two-sheet poster designed by Angelo
Casselon to promote the 1966 Giorgio Simonelli film Two Caught with
Pants Down [i due sanculotti] based on story and screenplay by
Marcello Ciorciolini, Giorgio Siminelli and Dino Verdi and starring
Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia as Franco and Ciccio La Capra.
Plot summary: The La Capra brothers move to France in the days of the
French Revolution, where they get themselves into trouble in a string
of misadventures trying to mix socially with the French. Fortunately
for the La Capra brothers, all the French people they meet speak
perfect Italian and they are able to talk their way out of almost
every awkward situation. In another stroke of luck, just as they are
about to be guillotined at the end, during the drumroll a masked
Scaramouche-like character leads a gang of mounted rescuers into the
square and kills the executioner with a pistol.
Cast and crew: Giorgio Simonelli, Angelo Cesselon, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Barbara Carroll, Heidi Hansen, Umberto D'Orsi, Luigi Pavese,Adriano Micantoni, Giustino Durano, Oreste Lionello, Silvano Tranquilli, Gino Buzzanca, Gina Mascetti, Valentino Macchi, Mary Arden, Luciano Vincenti, Vittorio Cramer, Dony Baster, Silvano Tranquilli, Gino Buzzanca, Gina Mascetti, Valentino Macchi, Mary Arden, Luciano Vincenti, Vittorio Cramer, Dony Baster
This is a two-piece 55" x 77" Italian four-sheet poster designed by
Deamicis to promote the 1954 Nathan Juran film Drums Across the River
written by John K. Butler and starring Audie Murphy as Gary Brannon.
Plot summary: When Frank Walker [Lyle Bettger] tries to open territory
belonging to the Ute Indians for goldmining, he pins the blame for the
theft of a gold shipment on Gary Brannon. Brannon gradually takes the
side of the Utes in the conflict, even though he had once hated them
for killing his mother.
Cast and crew: Nathan Juran, John K. Butler, Lyle Bettger, Audie Murphy, Walter Brennan, Jay Silverheels, Lisa Gaye, Hugh O'Brian, Mara Corday, Emile Meyer, Regis Toomey, Morris Ankrum, Bob Steele, James Anderson, George Wallace, Lane Bradford, Howard McNear
This is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour for the 1991 120-minute Salah Abouseif color film War in the
Land of Egypt [al-mowaten: masri] starring Omar Sharif, based on
the novel al-harb fi bar misr by Youssef El-Kaeed with
screenplay by Mohsen Zayed and cinematography by Tarek El-Telmisany.
Plot summary: In 1973 in an Egyptian village Abdel Zeraq al-Shershabi
(Omar Sharif), a shrewd feudal mayor, recovered his farmland by court
order after the lifting of a receivership. His young second wife
threatened to tell people he had become sexually impotent if he did
not prevent their only son Tawfiq from being drafted into the army
along with his other children from his first wife. The mayor
pressured an oppressed farm laborer named Abel Mawgud to have his son
Masri, who was exempt from the draft, take the place of his son Tawfiq
in the induction in exchange for the Mayor giving him the five feddans
he was farming, assigning him a special work crew and giving him a
cash reward. Abdel Mawgud and his son agreed to this. Then Masri was
killed in the October War, but he had already confessed the truth
about what had happened to a recruiter named Hassan [Ashraf Abdel Baqi]. The police were
investigating the incident, but Abdel Mawgud denied being Masri's
father out of fear of the Mayor's anger, who had only paid him 261
pounds and refused to give him the land he had promised.
Cast and crew: Omar Sharif, Achraf Abdel Baqi, Ezzat El Alaili, Safia El Emari, Salah Abouseif, Abdullah Mahmoud, Khaled Nabawy, Youssef El-Kaeed, Enaam Salousa, Hassan Hosny, Hanan Shawki, Ashraf Abdel Baqi, Rushdi El Mahdi, Lola Mohamed, Mohsen Zayed, Tarek El-Telmisany, Yousef al-Qa'eed, Al-Montaser Billah, Magdi Sobhi, Mohamed Al-Seba, Rushdi El Mahdi, Abol Fotouh Omara, Naim Esa, Lola Mohamed
Pictured is a US 27" x 41" US one-sheet designed to promote the 1961
Sydney J. Furie film Dr. Blood's Coffin based on story and
screenplay by Nathan Juran adapted for film by James Kelley and Peter
Miller and starring Kieron Moore as Dr. Peter Blood. Plot summary:
Dr. Blood is a mad scientist who brings the dead back to life in a
laboratory hidden in a Cornish tin mine. He does this by using curare
to remove living hearts from undeserving people and transfer them to
the bodies of deserving dead people.
Cast and crew: Sidney J. Furie, Nathan Juran, James Kelley, Peter Miller, Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter, Kenneth J. Warren, Gerald Lawson, Fred Johnson, Paul Hardtmuth, Paul Stockman, Andy Alston
Pictured is a 27" x 39" original Egyptian stone litho one-sheet
designed by Wahib Fahmy to promote the 1946 Hassan El-Seify 124-minute
black-and-white film Neighborhood Girl [bint el-hetta],
sometimes also translated as The Girl Next Door, starring
Zahrat El-Ola, based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud
Ismail with cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. This intricate film
about life in a Cairo neighborhood is filmed entirely on a studio
sound stage and its story, dialogue and screenplay are all the
imaginative work of Mahmoud Ismail, who also plays the part of the
scheming Zaki al-Fayoumi. The sound stage does not do a good job of
showing the loud and chaotic character of a lower class Cairo
neighborhood, but that is not its purpose. Ismail wants to present a
psychological tapestry showing interaction and conflict among people
in difficult circumstances trying to satisfy social and financial
needs in various legitimate and illegitimate ways. This early example
of Egyptian social realism also features two classic performances by
the great dancer Samia Gamal in her role as Zaki al-Fayoumi's
collaborator.
Plot summary: Ekhlas [Zahrat El-Ola] is a university student and her
brother Salim [Ahmed Ramzi] is unemployed. Her mother [Zouzou Nabil]
is a domineering wife and her father [Ahmed Al Gaziri] is a man with a
weak personality who sells animal feed. Omar [Shukry Sarhan] owns a
dairy shop, but has stopped working to help his blind mother [Aziza
Helmy] care for his sisters. Zaki al-Fayoumi [Mahmoud Ismail] is a
tyrant who runs a criminal gang. His trusted assistant is Hambaka
[Tewfik El Dekn]; the beautiful and charming dancer Hosnia [Samia
Gamal] is another of his collaborators. Ekhlas loves Omar, who
persuades her to marry him, but Zaki Al-Fayoumi also loves her and
wants to marry her somehow. To this end he exploits her mother's
greed and her unemployed brother Selim's financial condition. He
employs Selim at a big salary and arranges a marriage between him and
Hosnia in exchange for the right to marry Selim's sister. Ekhlas goes
along with the wishes of her mother and brother and agrees to an
engagement with Zaki in return for being allowed to complete her
studies at the university, but this does not settle the question of
who will marry Ekhlas. Hambaka hires Ganzir [Hassan Hosni] and
Farkasha [Ahmed Abaza] to kill Omar to get him away from Ekhlas, but
they only injure him. Then they tell Ekhlas to break off her
engagement to Zaki and agree to marry Omar after he is cured and
leaves the hospital. On other side, to neutralize Omar as his rival
Zaki orders Selim to plant a package of hashish in a cupboard
belonging to Omar, who is then arrested and put in prison. Selim has
an awakening of conscience and feels he committed a great sin in
submitting to Zaki. Ekhlas feels her brother Selim has had a hand in
the planting of the hashish and tells this to her attorney [Anwar
Madkour]. The attorney hires special investigator Labib [George
Sidhum] to follow Selim. When Zaki senses that Selim is no longer
loyal to him, he asks Hosnia to poison his drink while they are in a
bar, but in a dramatic intervention the investigator Labib sitting
nearby jumps up and warns Selim not to drink it. In a ruse, Ekhlas
claims she loves Zaki and wants to marry him. Omar escapes from
prison seeking to prove his innocence. Hambaka and Zaki go to the
police and confess everything, while Selim confesses to planting the
hashish. They all gather at Zaki's home where the police rescue
Ekhlas. A police officer [Mokhtar Al Sayed] shoots and kills Zaki,
Hosnia is killed by her former lover, Ekhlas's mother goes crazy and
Omar's innocence is proven although he is given a six-month suspended
sentence for breaking out of prison.
Cast and crew: Samia Gamal, Shukry Sarhan, Ahmed Ramzy, Mahmoud Ismail, Mostafa Hassan, Zahrat El-Ola, Hassan El-Seify, Zouzou Nabil, Aziza Helmy, Mahmoud Farag, Anwar Madkour, Abdel Mohsen Seleem, Ahmed Abaza, Ahmed Al Gaziri, Hassan Hosni, George Sidhum, Mokhtar El Sayed