This is a 6.5" x 9.5" 14-page film program for the 1950 film My Sister Seteita> written\
and directed by Hussein Fawzi and Starring
Sabah as Hodhod. Plot summary: Hodhod was a singer who fell in love
with a famous singer named named Nabil [Saad Abdel Wahab]. To
insinuate herself into his life she impersonated his sister Seteita,
[Afaf Shaker] whom he had not seen in years.
This is a 35" x 45" two-piece Egyptian poster made to promote the 1953
Ezzel Dine Zulficar 92-minute black-and-white film Night Train
[qattar al-leil] starring Samia Gamal based on a story by Stephan
Rosti with screenplay by Zaki Saleh, Stephan Rostam and Ezzel Dine
Zulficar with cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary: The father
of Samia [Samia Gamal] was in a severe financial crisis and decided to
sell his house to get out of it. Samia's boyfried Adel [Imad Hamdi]
tried to prevent this by paying off her father's debt, but was unable
to do so before the house was sold, and to make matters more
complicated, Samia also told him she no longer wanted to be in a
relationship with him.
Cast and crew: Ezzel Dine Zulficar, Stephan Rosti, Wahid Farid, Zaki Saleh, Samia Gamal, Imad Hamdi, Seraj Munir, Suleiman Naguib, Fakher Fakher, Salah Nazmi, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Hussein Isa, Hussein Eisa, Zaki Ibrahim, Aida Kamal, Abdel Alim Khattab
Pictured is a 23.5" x 35.5" first printing of an Egyptian poster designed by
Dimitri, Studio Adly and Meftah to promote the 1951 111-minute Kamal
Attia black-and-white film The Much-Loved One [habaebi ketir]
starring Ragaa Abdou with story and dialogue by Abdel Aziz Salam and
cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: The musician Nabila
[Ragaa Abdou] paid no attention to the admirers who gathered around
her every day. Nabila lived only for her art and did not care for
anything but her art and singing. Then a young man named Raouf who
managed an advertising company [Kamal Al-Shennawi] appeared in her
life and tried to tear down the walls Nabila had built around herself.
He succeeded and she fell in love with him, but her wicked brother
Farid [Farid Shawqi] did not like this because he had been planning
for her to marry a wealthy man named Ghandur Bey [Abdel Ghani
al-Nagdi]. The two of them fought over this; Nabila finally prevailed
and married the one she loved.
Cast and crew: Ragaa Abdou, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Magda, Farid Shawqi, Ismail Yasseen, Kamal Attia, Bruno Salvi, Abdel Aziz Salam, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Hassan Kamel, Fathia Chahine, Soad Ahmed, Gamalat Zayed, Abdel Alim Khattab, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Samir Ezzat, Souraya Fakhry, Ibrahim Fawzi, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Gihane
Shown here is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease poster designed by an
unknown artist for the 1956 139-minute Hassan El-Seify black-and-white
film Samara starring Taheya Cariocca based on story and
screenplay by Mahmoud Ismail with dialogue by Abdel Moneim El-Sebai
and cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: This is an Egyptian
noir style crime thriller, featuring a classy 1952 Packard
Mayfair convertible as an Egyptian gang's vehicle of choice for its
various criminal errands. Soltan [Mahmoud Ismail] was a big-time
smuggler who loved Samara [Taheya Cariocca]. He married her and drew
her into his criminal affairs; she became influential in the affairs
of his gang. When the police sent an escaped convict named Abu Shefa
[Mohsen Sarhan] into their midst as an informer, Samara fell in love
with him. After Samara flirted with him playfully at a nightclub,
Soltan's boss Wagih [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] also fell in love with
Samara, although she did not feel the same way about him. Wagih,
Samara and Soltan went to Suez together to receive a shipment of
smuggled hashish. The police followed them there and monitored their
activities. When the police were closing in later for a final arrest
in Cairo they shot Samara while she was in Abu Shefa's arms.
Cast and crew: Hassan El-Seify, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Seraj Munir, El Sayed Bedeir, Stephan Rosti, Taheya Cariocca, Mohsen Sarhan, Mahmoud Ismail, Mahmoud Nasr, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Reyad El Kasabgy, Mohammed Tawfik, Mohammed Dib, Shafik Noureddin, Gamalat Zayed, Fouad Gafaar, Hussein Ismail, Awatef Youssef, Mohsen Hassanein, Abdel Moneim El-Sebai
Ismail Yasseen Meets Raya and Sekina [ismail yasseen yuqabel raya wa sekina] (1955) - (Ismail Yasseen) Egyptian photo poster
This is a 13.5" x 19.5" Egyptian poster made by an unknown designer to
promote the 123-minute 1955 Hamada Abdel Wahab black-and-white
film Ismail Yasseen Meets Raya and Sekina [ismail yasseen
yuqabel raya wa sekina] starring Ismail Yasseen based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary with cinematography by
Robert Tamba. Plot summary: Ismail Yasseen was with his fiance when
she crashed an automobile into a house occupied by the gang of Ria and
Sekina. This gang had been kidnapping girls, killing them, stealing
their jewelry and burying their bodies under their house. Ismail
Yasseen was afraid they would do this to him, so he decided to flee
the place with his fiance. After running away Ismail Yasseen decided
to tell the police where the gang was located, but they did not
believe him and put him in jail. There he met a thief who did believe
him and later helped him get into the home of Ria and Sekina. After
attempts and chases Ismail Yasseen tried to attract the attention of
the police to what had happened at the home of Ria and Sekina, so they
could find and arrest the gang. Ismail Yasseen, his fiance and the
repentant thief left the home of Ria and Sekina after they had been
rescued from being murder victims.
Cast and crew: Hamada Abdel Wahab, Ismail Yasseen, Reyad El Kasabgy, Zouzu Hamdy el-Hakim, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Negma Ibrahim, Souraya Helmy, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Souraya Fakhry, Said Khalil, Neemat Moukhtar, Nazim Shaarawy, Abdel Rahim al-Qalaawy, Ahmad al-Gaziri, Abdel Hafiz al-Tatawy, Mohamed Shawqi, Kamel Anwar, Ibrahim Mohamed
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian promotional poster designed by Wahib
Fahmi to promote the 110-minute 1956 Kamal Attia black-and-white
film I Killed My Wife [qatalt zawgati] starring Madiha Yousri
based on story and screenplay by Kamal Attia with cinematograpy by
Mohamed Abdel Azim. A couple was unable to have children even though
they had been married for years. The husband was an insignificant
worker who loved his wife, so he kept her. There was a rumor in the
neighborhood that love had reemerged between the wife and her former
fiance, who had returned from a trip. The husband became suspicious
and decided to kill her. He was arrested and an attorney proved the
wife had not betrayed her husband, after the former fiance made a
confession. The husband was put in prison.
Cast and crew: Kamal Attia, Imad Hamdi, Madiha Yousri, Omar El-Hariri, Zahrat El-Ola, Wedad Hamdy, Ferdoos Mohammed, Ali Rushdy, Aziza Helmy, Mohamed Abdel Azim, El Sayed Bedeir, Souraya Fakhri, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Abdel Alim Khattab, Mohammad Shawqi, Hussein Qandil
This is a first printing of a 27" x 39" Egyptian Arabic film poster
for the 1954 110-minute Youssef Maalouf black-and-white film The
Adventures of Ismail Yasseen starring Ismail Yasseen based on a
screenplay and story by Youssef Isa with cinematography by Masoud Isa.
This poster was printed by Al-Naser Printers of Cairo and Alexandria
and distributed and produced by Aflam Nahdet al-Sharq (Paul Moradian) 42 Sherif
St. Cairo. Plot
summary: Two journalist friends were working at a news agency trying
to find effective reports for publication. One of them told a girl he
was in love with her. She tried to trap them for an international
gang that was working to smuggle goods out of the country. The two
friends discovered what the girl was doing and decided to go after the
gang and expose her criminal activities to international and local
authorities. The chase began and the girl decided to leave the gang
and help her lover. The gang was arrested and the boy married his
repentant love.
Cast and crew: Youssef Maalouf, Masoud Isa, Youssef Isa, Ismail Yasseen, Shadia, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Fakher Fakher, Abdel Ghani Qamar, Lutfi al-Hakim, Reyad El Kasabgy, Edmond Tuema, Ahmed Al-Gazayeri, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Ahmed Abaza
