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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Shame on You حرام عليك Ismail Yasseen 1954 Egyptian film program

Shame on You (1954) - (Ismail Yasseen) Egyptian film program

Pictured is a first printing of an 8" x 11" 8-page Egyptian film program to promote the 1954 92-minute Essa Karama black-and-white film Shame on You [haram aleyk] starring Ismail Yasseen based on screen play, story and dialogue by Gamal Hamdi with cinematography by Richard Salama. Parts of the story are also taken from the 1948 Charles Barton film Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Plot summary: Ismail and Abdou [Ismail Yasseen and Abdel Fatah Al Kasri] are working in a shop that sells antiquities. One day they receive a crate containing a mummy that looks like Frankenstein. A a sorcerer [Stephan Rosti] says he will be able to bring the mummy back to life by replacing its brain with Ismail's brain. The plan goes awry when Ismail and the mummy are laid out side by side for the brain transfer, because the mummy throws off its restraining straps and goes into a zombie-like Frankenstein walk, making various clumsy assaults on the people and fixtures that disrupt the proceedings. Apparently what really brings the mummy to life is the fear of receiving the brain of Ismail Yasseen! Alternate English titles are Ismail Yassin Meets Frankenstein and Ismail and Abdel Meet Frankenstein.

Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Essa Karama, Gamal Hamdi, Mary Shelley, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Stephan Rosti, Sanaa Gamil, Nabil Al Alfi, Lola Sedki, Richard Salama, Mohamed Sabih, Abdel Hamid Zaki

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Saturday, July 28, 2018

Yasmin ياسمين Anwar Wagdi 1950 Egyptian film program

Yasmin (1950) - (Feyrouz) Iranian Egyptian film program

This is a 6.25" x 9.25" 20-page Egyptian program for the 1950 musical Yasmin written and directed by Anwar Wagdi with screenplay and dialogue by Abou Seoud El-Ibiary and starring Feyrouz as Yasmin/Atuta. Plot summary: The head of the family Adel [Mohamamd al-Dib] did not want another daughter, so when Yasmin was born he left her at the door of a shelter. Adel later died; the girl grew up and ran away from the shelter to join a gang of pickpockets as Atuta. She happened to meet an unemployed trumpet player named Wahid [Anwar Wagdi] who asked her to help him with his act, stop stealing and repent. She lived with him for a time but got tired of the respectable life and went back to the gang. Wahid discovered that Atuta was a rich man's daughter. When Atuta's gang robbed her grandfather's [Zaki Rostom] villa the gang was arrested; Atuta became Yasmin again and went back to her mother, [Madiha Yousri] who married Wahid.

Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Madiha Yousri, Abdel Rahman, Zaki Rostom, Abdelhalim Nasr, Feyrouz, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Mohammad al-Dib, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Zeinab Sedky, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohammad Kamel, Mohammad Abu al-Seoud

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Sunday, April 1, 2018

Yasmin یاسمین Anwar Wagdi 1950 Egyptian lobby card

Yasmin (1950) - (Anwar Wagdi) Egyptian lobby card

This is a 12" x 15" Egyptian lobby card for the 1950 film Yasmin written and directed by Anwar Wagdi with screenplay and dialogue by Abou Seoud El-Ibiary and starring Feyrouz as Yasmin/Atuta. Plot summary: The head of the family Adel [Mohamamd al-Dib] did not want another daughter, so when Yasmin was born he left her at the door of a shelter. Adel later died; the girl grew up and ran away from the shelter to join a gang of pickpockets as Atuta. She happened to meet an unemployed trumpet player named Wahid [Anwar Wagdi] who asked her to help him with his act, stop stealing and repent. She lived with him for a time but got tired of the respectable life and went back to the gang. Wahid discovered that Atuta was a rich man's daughter. When Atuta's gang robbed her grandfather's [Zaki Rostom] villa the gang was arrested; Atuta became Yasmin again and went back to her mother, [Madiha Yousri] who married Wahid.

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Sunday, May 21, 2017

The Night is Ours الليل لنا (Sabah) - (1949) Egyptian one-sheet

The Night is Ours (1949) - (Sabah) Egyptian one-sheet

This is an original 23.5"x 35" Egyptian poster for the 1949 Mahmoud Zulfikar film The Night is Ours based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Youssef Gohar and starring Sabah as Nawal. Plot summary: Nawal is a singer who falsely presents herself as a student to Dr. Medhat, [Mahmoud Zulfikar] who falls in love with her. After she confesses she is not really a student, he says he still loves her and wants to marry her.

Cast and crew: Youssef Gohar, Sabah, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Soleiman Naguib, Salah Nazmi, Bruno Salvi, Wahba Hessaballah, Nelly Mazloum, Salah Nazmi, Mohamed Kamel, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Shafik Nour El Din, Mahmoud Azmy, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Mousen Hassanein

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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Leila the Rich Girl ليلى بنت الاغنياء (Laila Mourad) - (1947) Undated Egyptian Rerelease Poster

Leila the Rich Girl (1947) - (Laila Mourad) Egyptian rerelease one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist to promote an undated rerelease of the 1947 Anwar Wagdi musical Leila the Rich Girl, a remake of Frank Capra's 1934 It Happened One Night, with story by Anwar Wagdi, screenplay and dialogue by Badei Khayri and starring Laila Mourad as Leila. Plot summary: Leila was a pretty girl from a rich family who had lost her mother. Her father Hassan Rostam Basha [Bechara Wakim] was dominated by his bossy new wife Monira [Olwiyya Gamil]. Monira had imposed the bridegroom Gamil [Said Abu Bakr] on Leila because he was her nephew and she was planning to use him to get the money Leila would be receiving from her father. However when Gamil approached Leila during the wedding ceremony she pushed him away and ran out of the proceedings immediately. The press was full of reports about the search for the missing bride's car, which was damaged on a bridge and fell into the water; one of Leila's shoes she had been wearing at the wedding was found in the car. The journalist Wahid [Anwar Wagdi] went to the village where the accident had taken place and found Leila's other shoe. He was surprised by the sound of the enchanting voice of a young girl sitting on the bank singing in a tortured tone of voice. Wahid approached the girl because of her beauty and the sweetness of her voice. One of the people in the village told him she was the daughter of the village mayor [Abdel Hamid Zaki]. She was sick and everyone at her house was waiting for a physician who was on the way from Cairo. Wahid knocked on the door and claimed he was the doctor from Cairo looking for the girl. Once he saw her he realized she was not the one he had seen on the bridge. Wahid and the girl, who said her name was Farhana, left the mayor's house. Then Wahid learned the girl with him was really Leila, the runaway bride everyone thought had been killed because her loose shoes had been found. Back in Cairo Wahid convinced Leila's father she was still alive by taking him to the farmer's home where she was hiding. At first Leila thought Wahid did not love her and was planning to take her back to the misery she had been fleeing in exchange for reward money; instead Wahid was finally able to awaken the conscience of Leila's father and make him aware of the conspiratorial plans of his bossy wife and her nephew. The basha divorced Monira publicly and Leila immediately went back to Wahid, who was waiting nearby.

Cast and crew: Frank Capra, Badei Khayri, Abdelhalim Nasr, Olwiyya Gamil, Bechara Wakim, Hassan Fayek, Said Abu Bakr, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Abdel Nabi Mohammed, Reyad El Kasabgy, Laila Mourad, Anwar Wagdi

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Thursday, March 9, 2017

Deprivation الحرمان (Fayrouz) - (1954) Egyptian one-sheet

Deprivation (1954) - (Fayrouz) Egyptian one-sheet

This is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the 1954 110-minute black-and-white Atef Salem musical Deprivation [al-herman] starring Fayrouz as Mona with screenplay by Atef Salem, story and dialogue by Nairuz Abdel Malek and cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: A married couple lived separately. Wafa' [Zouzou Mady] worked her private home job and paid Engineer Fadel [Imad Hamdi] the father to take care of his small daughter Mona. Since he could not find anyone to look after Mona during his absence, he took her with him to work. While tampering with machinery at Fadel's plant, Mona accidentally caused her father to be caught in the moving parts of a large machine, which broke his arm. Mona ran away feeling tormented and guilty. She met Baheyya, [Negma Ibrahim] a malicious woman who took her in and treated her cruelly. Meanwhile Fadel was looking everywhere for his daughter. He went to Alexandria with his wife, who felt Mona had violated the rights of her family. Mona ran away from Baheyya, disguised herself as a boy named Bondoq and went to Alexandria as a stowaway on a train. There she took refuge with a kindly fisherman named Aouf [Adly Kasseb] and his mother [Souraya Fakhry]. Her mother and father found her later and she told them what had happened.

Cast and crew: Atef Salem, Nairuz Abdel Malek, Fayrouz, Imad Hamdi, Zouzou Mady, Nelly, Mahmoud Nasr, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Zeinat Sedki, Negma Ibrahim, Adly Kasseb, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Mahmood Lotfi, Nelly, Wagih al-Atrash

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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Yasmin ياسمين Anwar Wagdi 1950 Egyptian one-sheet poster

Yasmin (1950) - (Anwar Wagdi) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Abdel Rahman for the 1950 film Yasmin written and directed by Anwar Wagdi with screenplay and dialogue by Abou Seoud El-Ibiary and starring Feyrouz as Yasmin/Atuta. Plot summary: The head of the family Adel [Mohamamd al-Dib] did not want another daughter, so when Yasmin was born he left her at the door of a shelter. Adel later died; the girl grew up and ran away from the shelter to join a gang of pickpockets as Atuta. She happened to meet an unemployed trumpet player named Wahid [Anwar Wagdi] who asked her to help him with his act, stop stealing and repent. She lived with him for a time but got tired of the respectable life and went back to the gang. Wahid discovered that Atuta was a rich man's daughter. When Atuta's gang robbed her grandfather's [Zaki Rostom] villa the gang was arrested; Atuta became Yasmin again and went back to her mother, [Madiha Yousri] who married Wahid.

Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Madiha Yousri, Zaki Rostom, Abdelhalim Nasr, Feyrouz, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Mohammad al-Dib, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Zeinab Sedky, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohammad Kamel, Mohammad Abu al-Seoud, Abdelhalim Nasr

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Saturday, May 9, 2015

The Unknown Singer [المغني المجهول] (Mohammed Al Kahlawi) - (1946) Egyptian oversize poster

The Unknown Singer [al-moghani al-maghul] (1946) - (Mohammed Al Kahlawi) original Egyptian 33x45 stone litho film poster

Pictured is a first printing of a 33.5" x 45" Egyptian stone lithograph poster made by an unknown designer to promote the 105-minute Mostafa Hassan black-and-white film The Unknown Singer [al-moghani al-maghul] starring Mohammed Al Kahlawi based on an idea by Mohammed Al Kahlawi with screenplay and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary and cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. Plot summary: Mohammad and Shafiq grew up together. Shafiq became an engineer while Mohammad was unable to finish school and became a skilled decorator. Mohammad also had a beautiful voice and was able to record his singing for radio broadcasts. Mahasen, Shafiq's cousin, loved Mohammad and he reciprocated, but Shafiq also loved her. When Mohammad proposed to Mahasen her father refused to allow it because he wanted her to marry Shafiq. However when Mohammad won a prize for his singing he became an important person and Mahasen's father changed his mind and allowed the marriage.

Cast and crew: Mostafa Hassan, Mohammed Al Kahlawi, Amira Amir, Aziza Amir, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Choukoukou, Hassan Fayek, Bechara Wakim, Hagar Hamdi, Fakher Fakher, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Naima Gamal, Soad Hussein, Mousa Helmy, Abbas Ahmed, Gaber Ahmed, Abbas Hassan

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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Shame on You (حرام عليك) (Ismail Yasseen) - (1954) Egyptian poster

Shame on You [haram aleyk] (1954) - (Ismail Yasseen) original Egyptian 23x35 film poster

Pictured is a first printing of an original year 23.5" x 35.25" Egyptian stone litho poster designed by Farag to promote the 1954 92-minute Essa Karama black-and-white film Shame on You [haram aleyk] starring Ismail Yasseen based on screenplay, story and dialogue by Gamal Hamdi with cinematography by Richard Salama. Plot summary: Ismail and Abdou [Ismail Yasseen and Abdel Fatah Al Kasri] are working in a shop that sells antiquities. One day they acquire a crate containing a mummy (that looks like Frankenstein). A sorcerer [Stephan Rosti] thinks he will be able to bring the mummy back to life by replacing its brain with Ismail's brain. The plan goes awry when Ismail and the mummy are laid out side by side for the brain transfer, because the mummy throws off its chains and goes into a zombie-like Frankenstein walk, making various clumsy assaults on the people and fixtures that disrupt the proceedings. Apparently what really brings the mummy to life is the fear of receiving the brain of Ismail Yasseen! Alternate English titles are Ismail Yassin Meets Frankenstein and Ismail and Abdel Meet Frankenstein.

Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Essa Karama, Gamal Hamdi, Mary Shelley, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Stephan Rosti, Sanaa Gamil, Nabil Al Alfi, Lola Sedki, Richard Salama, Mohamed Sabih, Abdel Hamid Zaki

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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Guard Your Tongue [لسانك حصانك] (Shadia) - (1953) Egyptian Oversize Film Poster

Guard Your Tongue [lesanak hosanak] (1953) - (Shadia) original Egyptian 33x45 film poster

Pictured is an original year printing of a 33.5" x 45" Egyptian poster made to promote the 1953 Abbas Kamel 105-minute black-and-white film Guard Your Tongue [lisanak hosanak] starring Shadia with screenplay and dialogue by Abbas Kamel and cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: In this 105-minute course of uninterrupted buffoonery, the village mayor sends his son to Cairo along with al-Dandrawy to meet with Hamdy [Karem Mahmoud], who is working at the Tram Company so a school and a hospital can be built in the village. There is an emotional relationship between Hamdy and his neighbor Hamida [Shadia]. Hamida's Aunt Wedad [Zeinat Sedki] likes the musician Ghandour [Farid Shawqi], who has hired Hamida to sing in his group. Ghandour wants to marry Wedad, but she refuses him. Maria [Hind Rostom] likes Ghandour. The singing group goes to the mayor's village and Ghandour and Mandour [Aziz Osman] decide to steal a large amount of money so they can blame it on Hamdy, but their plan fails. Everyone knows Ghandour and Mandour are behind the theft. Hamdy marries Hamida and her Aunt Wedad marries the village mayor. Hind Rostom (1931-2011) appears here at the age of 22 in a prominent role as Maria, a singing and dancing brunette.

Cast and crew: Shadia, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud Nasr, Karem Mahmoud, Zeinat Sedki, Aziz Osman, Hind Rostom, El Sayed Bedeir, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Mahmoud Nasr, Abbas Kamel, Omar Al-Gizawy, Abdel Hamid Zaki, So'ad Mekawy, Kitty, Mohamed al-Tabei, El Sayed Bedeir, Lutfi al-Hakim

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Shame on You [حرام عليك] (Ismail Yasseen) - (1954)

Shame on You [haram aleyk] (Ismail Yasseen) (1957) original two-piece Egyptian stone litho film poster

Pictured is a first printing of a two-piece Egyptian stone litho poster designed by Farag to promote the 1954 92-minute Essa Karama black-and-white film Shame on You [haram aleyk] starring Ismail Yasseen based on screenplay, story and dialogue by Gamal Hamdi with cinematography by Richard Salama. Plot summary: Ismail and Abdou [Ismail Yasseen and Abdel Fatah Al Kasri] are working in a shop that sells antiquities. One day they acquire a crate containing a mummy (that looks like Frankenstein). A sorcerer [Stephan Rosti] thinks he will be able to bring the mummy back to life by replacing its brain with Ismail's brain. The plan goes awry when Ismail and the mummy are laid out side by side for the brain transfer, because the mummy throws off its chains and goes into a zombie-like Frankenstein walk, making various clumsy assaults on the people and fixtures that disrupt the proceedings. Alternate English titles are Ismail Yassin Meets Frankenstein and Ismail and Abdel Meet Frankenstein.

Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Essa Karama, Gamal Hamdi, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Stephan Rosti, Sanaa Gamil, Nabil Al Alfi, Lola Sedki, Richard Salama, Mohamed Sabih, Abdel Hamid Zaki

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Friday, October 25, 2013

It Happened One Night [hadasa zata laila] (1954) - (Hoda Soltan)

It Happened One Night [hadasa zata laila] (1954) - (Hoda Soltan) original Egyptian 23x35 film poster

Shown here is a first printing of a 23.5" x 35.25" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour and printed by Al-Nasr Printers to promote the 1954 Henry Barakat film It Happened One Night [hadasa zata laila] starring Hoda Soltan based on a screenplay by Henry Barakat with story and dialogue by Fathy Abol-Fadl and cinematography by Klelio. The film was produced by Kamel Abdullah Hamuda's Arabic Films Company and distributed by Montekhabat Behna. Plot summary: A poor girl married a rich boy despite opposition from the boy's father. She lived happily with her husband until she fell into the clutches of a young hustler who told her her husband had injured him in an accident. Her husband found out about him holding her and divorced her without understanding that his wife was innocent, then went abroad. The wife took revenge against the hustler who had ruined her life by killing him. Then when she tried to commit suicide her young attorney saved her and defended her in court, where he successfully reduced her sentence. He promised to marry her after her release from prison.

Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Hoda Soltan, Mohsen Sarhan, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Shafik Noureddin, Abdel Rahim El Zarkani, Klelio, Aida Kamel, Hind Rostom, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Nimat Mukhtar, Shafik Noureddin, Soraya Salem, Rafia al-Shal, Zaki Ibrahim, Mary Ezzedine

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Money [al-folus] (1945) - (Aziza Amir)

Money [al-folus] (1945) - (Aziza Amir) Egyptian film poster

Shown here is a 22" x 34" first printing of an Egypian poster designed by Marcel and printed by L'Art Graphique to promote the 1945 Ebrahim Emara 100-minute black-and=white film Money [al-folus] starring Aziza Amir based on a screenplay by Aziza Amir with dialogue written by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary and cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. The film was produced by Nahas Film. Plot summary: The father died leaving his son Kamal and his daughter Salma in the care of their big brother, whose wife completely dominated him and treated his siblings harshly; in contrast she was raising her daughter Fifi to be irresponsible. The brother's wife expelled Kamal and Salma from her home and the two of them went looking for work. Salma found work as s photographer at a newspaper. With her connections at the newspaper she was even able to find work for Kamal at a theater where he loved to sing. Salma and Kamal succeeded in their work life while their brother's daughter Fifi remained irresponsible and immoral and she tried to drive a wedge between Salma and Kamal. She convinced Kamal that he got his job at the theater because of a relationship between Salma and the theater director. Kamal became angry and tried to kill the theater director but Salma found a press picture of the theater director with a call girl and discovered she was Fifi. She revealed the facts to Kamal and he apologized to her, while their big brother, his wife and their daughter Fifi were shamed and dishonored.

The paper on these old Egyptian movie posters is fragile, brittle and has a tendency to crumble. It has never been archivally deacidified and the vast majority of them are long gone. The few survivors like this one have a special aura for me because of their design, the media they represent and the subtle crinkling sounds they make when you pick them up.

Cast and crew: Ibrahim Emara, Aziza Amir, Hassan Fayek, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Mostafa Hassan, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Rawhiyya Khaled, Bechara Wakim, Mohamed Salman, Abdel Waress Assar, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Tawfiq Ismail, Said Abu Bakr, Soad Ahmed, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Samia Rushdy, Nabawiya Mostafa

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Love Child (1953) - (Faten Hamama)

Love Child (1953) 45" x 33" first printing Egyptian poster

Love Child [bint al-hawa] (1953) - (Faten Hamam) Egyptian film poster

Shown here is a 35" x 23.5" first printing of an Egyptian poster made to promote the 1953 Youssef Wahby film Love Child [bint al-hawa] starring Faten Hamama based on a screenplay and story by Yousef Wahby with cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. The film was produced by the Charles Nahas Studio. Plot summary: A man confessed his love to a dancer and they had a relationship until he left her in the end and did not marry her. The dancer had his child but the man refused to marry her or recongize the child. This was the origin of the woman's malice towards men. She made herself a judge of all of them and resolved to get revenge. She left her town and sent to Cairo. She became a famous dancer and was courted by wealthy men, but she feared this life for the sake of her daughter, for whom had she made a special life. She made every effort to provide her with knowledge and ethics, fearing she might fall someday. However her daughter established a relationship with a boy who resolved to marry her. His father opposed this because of the mother's profession, but the son argued the solution was to get the mother out of the daughter's life. The mother agreed to this for the sake of her daughter's happiness. However the mother died on the day her daughter returned from her honeymoon.

Cast and crew: Faten Hamama, Youssef Wahby, Fakher Fakher, Taheya Cariocca, Marie Munib, Kamal Hossein, Zeinat Sedki, Aziza Helmy, Kitty, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Shafik Noureddin, Ibrahim Heshmat

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Saturday, December 22, 2012

As You Like (1952)

As You Like [ala kayfak] (1952) - (Taheya Cariocca) oversize Egyptian film poster (36" x 47")

This film was directed by Helmy Raflah with story and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary. Cinematography was by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A young man celebrated his wedding day but it was discovered that night that a child was attributed to him. The child's grandfather learned about this and appeared to demand that the bridegroom marry his daughter after going back to her. The young man was innocent of this accusation, but the only solution was to find the boy who had gotten the girl pregnant and have him marry her. Otherwise he would have to refuse to complete the marriage after being accused about the child. The only way out for the boy they were looking for was to claim insanity and commit himself. The bridegroom learned he had done and went to visit him. The boy emphasized his innocence and then the bride agreed to the completion of the marriage.

Cast and crew: Taheya Cariocca, Leila Fawzi, Ismail Yasseen, Mohsen Sarhan, Aziz Osman, Wedad Hamdy, Aida Kamel, Nour El-Demerdash, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Helmy Rafla, Bruno Salvi, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Gamalat Zayed, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Kamal Hussein, Negah Salam, Zaki Ibrahim