This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Sami and al-Thaghr Khamis for the 1988
Robert Zemeckis film Who Framed Roger Rabbit based on the 1988
novel of the same title by Gary K. Wolf, screenplay by Jeffrey Price
and Peter S. Seaman and starring Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant. Plot
summary: Toon star Roger Rabbit [voiced by Charles Fleischer] hires
detective Eddie Valiant to check up on his wife Jessica, whom he
suspects of playing around. Roger himself soon becomes a murder
suspect.
Cast and crew: Sami, Gary K. Wolf, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman,
Robert Zemeckis, Gary K. Wolf, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna
Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, Alan Tilvern, Richard
LeParmentier, Lou Hirsch, Betsy Brantley, Joel Silver, Paul Springer,
Richard Ridings, Edwin Craig, Lindsay Holiday, Mike Edmonds
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman for the
1986 Said Tantawi film My Daughter and the Jackal based on
screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Abouzayd and Sabry Ezzat and
starring Shams El-Barudy as Azhar. Plot summary: Azhar suffered
because of the actions of her rebellious son. On the other hand
Mostafa [Hassan Youssef] had an unspoken love for her. Youssef [Nour
El-Sherif] also courted her. Azhar did not reveal her secret and
simply observed the situation at a mansion belonging to her aunt
[Naima Wasfy]. She discovered that Mostafa was working there and was
planning to court her. She also rebuffed his attentions.
Cast and crew: Said Tantawi, Kamal Korayem, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim,
Shams El-Barudy, Nour El-Sherif, Hassan Youssef, Mahmoud El-Meliguy,
Said Tantawi, Safia El Emari, Amira, Mohammed Tawfik, Naima Wasfy,
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Kamal Korayem, Abdel Rahim Abu Aouf, Mahmoud
Abouzayd, Sabry Ezzat
This isa 27" x39" Egyptian poster designed byGasour and Abdel Aziz
for the 1976 Nader Galal film No Time for Tears based on a
story by Rizq Helmy, screenplay by Rizq Helmy and Abdel Hay Adib and
starring Naglaa Fathy as Azza. Plot summary: Azza is a dancer who
falls in love with an Egyptian army officer named Amr [Hussein Fahmy]
and promises to marry him. When she hears he has been killed, she
immerses herself dancing in Cairo's nightclubs to pay expenses and
cope with her grief; she is shocked and confused when Amr unexpectedly
turns up alive and well. She does not know where to begin.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Rizq Helmy, Abdel Hay Adib, Hussein
Fahmy, Nader Galal, Mahmoud Nasr, Nour El-Sherif, Mahmoud El-Meliguy,
Amina Rizk, Hussein El-Sherbini, Ehsan Sherif, Ahmed Abaza, Mohamed
Shawky, Safia El Emari
This is a 22" x 33.5" reprint of a half-sheet poster for the 1951
Robert Wise film The Day the Earth Stood Still based on a story
by Harry Bates, screenplay by Edmund H. North and starring Michael
Rennie as Klaatu. Plot summary: Klaatu, an alien from a planet 250
million miles away, lands on an American baseball diamond in
Washington D.C. with his robot Gort [Lock Martin] just after the end
of World War II. He wants to make it known to the people that their
warlike ways are no longer tolerable now that they have begun
developing atomic energy.
Cast and crew: Robert Wise, Edmund H. North, Harry Bates, Michael
Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances
Bavier, Lock Martin
This is a 26.5" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Morteda Anise for
the 1995 Frank Marshall film Congo based on the 1980 Michael
Crichton novel of the same title, screenplay by John Patrick Stanley
and starring Laura Linney as Dr. Karen Ross. Plot summary: Dr. Karen
Ross goes on an expedition to the African Congo to try to find her
fiancee Charles Travis, [Bruce Campbell] who has disappeared there
while looking for a source of diamonds for use as communications
transmitters.
Cast and crew: Tim Curry, John Patrick Shanley, Dylan Walsh, Frank
Marshal, Michael Crichton, Ernie Hudson, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker,
Lola Noh, Mary Ellen Trainor, Misty Rosas, Stuart Pankin, Carolyn
Seymour, Romy Rosemont, James Karen, Bill Pugin, Lawrence T. Wrentz
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1973 Henry Barakat film A Woman with a Bad Repuation based on
story, screenplay and dialogue by Mamdou El Leithy and starring Shams
El-Barudy as Henaa. Plot summary: Henaa and Kamal Shukry [Youssef
Chaban] got married, but then he made her compromise her principles to
help him fulfill his ambitions. He introduced her to his manager
Saafan, [Imad Hamdi] who rewarded Kamal by making him company sales
manager. Henaa soon became a prostitute selling her body to get
promotions. Henaa met her old boyfriend Ahmed Fouad [Mahmoud Yassine]
but she did not tell him about the way she had been behaving with
Saafan. She promised Ahmed she would ask Kamal for a divorce so she
could marry him.
Cast and crew: Shams El-Barudy, Mamdouh El Leithy, Henry Barakat,
Mahmoud Yassine, Imad Hamdi, Hesham Wadid Serri, Mamdouh El Leithy,
George Sidhum, Salah Nazmi, Nagwa Fouad, Youssef Chaban
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani for the
1986 Ali Badrakhan film The Hunger based on characters
developed by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay by Esam Ali and Ali Badrakhan
and starring Soad Hosny as Zubaida. Plot summary: This film is a
remake of the 1986 Houssam El-Din Mustafa epic film The
Racketeers [al-harafish]. In the year 1886 Farag Al-Gebali
[Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] worked as a wagon driver to support his mother.
He was married to Zeinab [Soad Hosny]. His brother Gaber [Abdel Aziz
Makhyoun] worked as a blacksmith and married the poor girl Zubeida
[Sanaa Younes] after the death of the thug who had raped her during a
brawl among the neighborhood gangs. The people of the neighborhood
appointed Farag as their main tough guy but he snubbed them after his
marriage to a wealthy woman, [Youssra] moving into her mansion and
running her agency. The nile subsided, the rains did not come, famine
began, the people became poor and the merchants played their games
because they feared their stocks would be raided when the people
became hungrier and prices went up. Farag exploited the famine in
Cairo by hoarding grain. He broke all his old promises and made a
pact with the rich that the tough guy had to side with the nobility.
Zubaida led the racketeers against Farag who was killed, and appointed
her husband Gaber as the new tough guy, but Gaber refused and advised
them to rely on themselves. The revolution became collective with
Zubaida's help.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Abdel Ghani, Youssra, Mahmoud Abdel
Aziz, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Esam Ali, Aly Badrakhan, Sanaa Younes,
Souraya Helmy, Naguib Mahfouz, Mostafa Moharram, Mahmoud Abdelsamie,
Youssra, Samiha Tawfiq, Sayed Sadek, Hafez Amin, Ahmed Abu Abih, Said
Tarabeek, Hanan Soleyman, Adel Awad, Randa, Naim Esa, Othman Abdul
Menem, Youssef Abid, Ibrahim Hussein, Mohamed Tarabeek, Abdelhay
Ezzat, Abdel Ghany Naser, Fathy Ibrahim, Sayed Salem, Adel Abulgheit,
Madiha Youssri
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1966 Fatin Abdel Wahab
film My Wife the Director General written by Abdel Hamid Gouda
El Sahhar and Saad Eldin Wahba and starring Shadia as Esmat. Plot
summary: Hussein Omar [Salah Zulfikar] was surprised when his wife
Esmat was made director general of the construction company where he
was working. He concealed his marriage to the director general but he
was forced to admit it later when friction developed between them over
trivialities. Esmat tried to have a new honeymoon with her husband,
while her husband asked for a transfer to her department so he could
be a witness to the value of her work.
Cast and crew: Fatin Abdel Wahab, El-Deif Ahmed, Shadia, Salah
Zulfikar, Fatin Abdel Wahab, Mahmoud Fahmy, Tewfik El Dekn, Shafik
Noureddin, Youssef Chaban, Kariman, Adel Imam, Abdel Hamid Gouda El
Sahar, Saad Eldin Wahba
This is a 22" x 32" Czech poster designed by Karel Vaka for a 1970
rerelease of the 1952 Federico Fellini film The White Sheik
based on a story by Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and
Tullio Pinelli, screenplay by Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli and
starring Alberto Sordi as Fernando Rivoli, The White Sheik. Plot
summary: Wanda Giardino Cavalli [Brunella Bovo] slips away on her
wedding night for a rendezvous with her photonovel idol, the White
Sheik, so she can show him one of her paintings. Her new husband Ivan
[Leopoldo Trieste] is perplexed by her disappearance and goes looking
for her in the streets of Rome.
Cast and crew: Federico Fellini, Karel Vaca, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tullio
Pinelli, Ennio Flaino, Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste,
Giulietta Masina, Ernesto Almirante, Lilia Landi, Fanny Marchio, Gina
Maschetti, Jole Silvani, Enzo Maggio, Anna Primula, Mimo Billi,
Armando Libianchi, Ugo Attanasio, Giulio Moreschi
This is a 26.5" x 38" Egyptian poster for the 2003 Robert Benton
film The Human Stain based on the 2000 Philip Roth novel of the
same title, screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and starring Anthony Hopkins
as Coleman Silk. Plot summary: Coleman Silk is a respected classics
professor with skeletons in his closet that are about to be pulled out
into the open by writer Nathan Zuckerman [Gary Sinise].
Cast and crew: Anthony Hopkins, Philip Roth, Nicholas Meyer, Robert
Benton, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Wentworth Miller,
Jacinda Barrett, Harry Lennix, Clark Gregg, Anna Deavere Smith, Lizan
Mitchell, Kerry Washington, Phyllis Newman, Margo Martindale, Ron
Canada, Mili Avital
This isa 26" x38" Egyptian one-sheet poster for the 2001 Tim Burton
film Planet of the Apes based on the 1963 novel of the same
title by Pierre Boulle and starring Mark Wahlberg as Captain Leo
Davidson. Plot summary: Astronaut Leo Davidson is unexpectedly
rerouted through a cosmic wormhole and lands on a planet where the
human race is ruled by talking apes.
Cast and crew: Pierre Boulle, William Broyles Jr., Lawrence Konner,
Mark Rosenthal, Tim Burton, Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter, Paul
Giamatti, Kris Kristofferson, Tim Roth, Michael Clarke Duncan, Estalla
Warren, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, David Warner, Erick Avari, Lucas Elliot
Eberi, Evan Parke, Glenn Shadix, Freda Foh Shen, Chris Ellis
This 1960 Egyptian black-and-white film was directed by Fatin Abdel
Wahab, screenplay by Mohamed Abu Youssef, dialogue by Amin Yussef
Ghurab, cinematography Aly Hassan; it tells the story of a cabaret
dancer in Alexandria named Leila [Samia Gamal]. Many of the customers
liked her but she resisted their offers of marriage and requests that
she become their mistress. She had one importunate pursuer named
Hamada [Ahmed Mazhar] whom she always resisted. He was shocked when
she married another man named Abbas [Mahmoud El-Meliguy], with whom
she ran the cabaret after they were married. Hamada, shocked and
disappointed, disappeared. Then Abbas apparently died in a fire on his
boat. Hamada returned and this time she accepted him. Abbas, who had
not actually died, came back and tried to separate them but could not
do so.
Cast and crew: Samia Gamal, Ahmed Mazhar, Fatin Abdel Wahab,
Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mohamed Reda, Mohammed Tawfik, Said Khalil,
Souraya Fakhry, Mohamed Badreddine, Mohamed Abu Youssef, Amin Yousseff
Ghurab, Aly Hassan
This is a 26.5" x 38" Egyptian poster for the 1997 Michael Caton-Jones
film The Jackal AKA The Day of the Jackal based on
screen story and screenplay by Chuck Pfarrer and starring Bruce Willis
as The Jackal. Plot summary: In Moscow the FBI and the Russian MVD
are working together pursuing multiple international suspects
including The Jackal, who has been hired to hit a high-profile
American target.
Cast and crew: Chuck Pfarrer, Richard Gere, Bruce Willis, Sidney
Poitier, Michael Caton-Jones, Kenneth Ross, Diane Venora, Mathilda
May, J.K. Simmons, Richard Lineback, John Cunningham, Jack Black, Tess
Harper, Leslie Phillips, Tess Harper, Stephen Spinella, Sophie
Okonedo, David Hayman, Steve Bassett
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour to promote the 1976 109-minute Hassan Al Imam color
film The Nightingale Has Lips [al-kerwan luh shafayef] starring Soheir
Ramzy based on a story by Roget Lahont, screenplay and dialogue by
Hassan Al Imam and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary:
Hussein [Samir Sabri] and Qasem [Youssef Chaban] worked with Kerwan,
[Soheir Ramzy] the female star of a dance troupe. The troupe fell
heavily into debt and there was a breakup. Afterwards there was a
false murder accusation and an incident of marital infidelity,
followed by a resumption of what had gone before.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Roget Lahont, Imad Hamdi, Soheir
Ramzy, Nabila Ebeid, Naima Al Soghayar, Youssef Chaban, Abu Bakr
Ezzat, Hayat Kandeel, Samir Sabri, Enaam Salousa, Wahid Farid, Robab,
Farouq Naguib, Walid Tewfiq, Enaam Salousa
Pictured is an original 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet movie poster
designed to promote the 1961 153-minute Henry Barakat black-and-white
film There is a Man in Our House [fi baitina ragol] starring
Omar Sharif based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay by
Youssef Issa and Henry Barakat, dialogue by Youssef Issa and
cinematography by Hesham Wadid Serri. Plot summary: Ibrahim [Omar
Sharif] assassinates the prime minister who has been collaborating
with the imperialists, then asks his friend Mohey [Hassan Youssef] to
hide him. Mohey's father does not welcome the fugitive, but his
sisters are happy to help Ibrahim contact his political friends.
Ibrahim eventually rejoins the rebellion in Egypt and is killed in an
attack on a British base. This film is on film critic Ahmad
Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Zubaida Tharwat, Henry Barakat, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus,
Rushdy Abaza, Omar Sharif, Zahrat El-Ola, Hassan Youssef, Tewfik El
Dekn, Hesham Wadid Serri, Hussein Riad, Nahed Samir, Abdel Khalek
Saleh, Youssef Chaban, Abdel Moneim Bassioni
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani for the
1968 Roberto Mauri AKA Robert Morris film King of Kong Island
AKA Jungla 2000 AKA Eva, la Venere selvaggia based on a
story by Ralph Zucker and Walter Brandi, screenplay by Roberto Mauri
and starring Brad Harris as Burt Dawson. Plot summary: Eva [Esmeralda
Barros] is a half-naked jungle girl known locally as the "sacred
monkey" who has been raised in the forests of Kenya by wild gorillas.
Albert Muller [Marc Lawrence] is a mad scientist experimenting with
large apes hoping to transform them into his submissive bodyguards and
military fighters by surgically implanting radio transmitters into
their brains. Burt Dawson is a mercenary adventurer who goes into the
jungle looking for his friend Diana [Ursula Davis] after her abduction
by gorillas.
Cast and crew: Roberto Mauri, Robert Morris, Abdel Ghani, Brad
Harris, Paul Carter, Jim Clay, Esmeralda Barros, Marc Lawrence,
Adriana Alben, Mark Farran, Paulo Mogalotti, Aldo Cecconi, Mario
Donatone, Miles Mason, Gino Turini, Ursula Davis, Gianni Pulone
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman for the
1976 British-American children's musical Bugsy Malone written
and directed by Alan Parker, music by Paul Williams and starring Scott
Baio as Bugsy and Jodie Foster as Tallulah. Plot summary: Using a
cast of child actors with adult voices dubbing the songs, this film
set in New York and Chicago tells a story about the gangsters of the
1920-1931 prohibition era. The gangster firearms and machineguns are
replaced with ice cream-shooting "splurge guns."
Cast and crew: Alan Parker, Paul Williams, Abdel Rahman, Scott
Baio, Florrie Dugger, Jodie Foster, John Cassisi, Martin Lev, Paul
Murphy, Sheridan Earl Russell, Albin Jenkins, Paul Chirelstein, Andrew
Paul, Davidson Knight, Michael Jackson, Jeff Stevenson, Peter Holder,
Donald Waugh
