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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
