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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Me and My Heart انا و قلبي Mariam Fakhr Eddine 1958 Egyptian one-sheet

My Heart and I (1958) - (Maariam Fakhr Eddine) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 23.25" x 35" stone lithograph movie poster by an unknown artist for the 1958 Mahmoud Zulfikar film Me and My Heart based on a story by Amin Yousseff Ghurab, screenplay by Mahmoud Zulfikar and Amin Yousseff Ghurab and starring Mariam Fakhr Eddine as Leila. Plot summary: A woman named Leila was shocked when she saw her mother in her husband's [Hussein Kandil] arms and ran out of the house in a rush. She was hit by a car and taken to a hospital. She was shocked again when Dr. Mohsen at the hospital [Imad Hamdi] gave her a job and then proposed marriage. Dr. Mohsen knew she was from a prosperous family. He contacted her brother, [Youssef Fakhr Eddine] who asked her husband to divorce her; he refused and obtained a court order summoning her to a marital obedience dwelling.

Cast and crew: Mariam Fakr Eddine, Imad Hamdi, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Victor Antoun, Mohammad Al-Mowgi, Hend Allam, Adly Kasseb, Aziza Helmy, Elham Zaki, Fifi Youssef, Hussein Kandil, Sabry Abdelaziz, Shafik Noureddin, Amin Yousseff Ghurab

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Midaq Alley زقاق المدق Shadia (1963) Egyptian one-sheet

Midaq Alley (1963) - (Shadia) Egyptian one-sheet

The poster pictured is a 27" x 39" stone lithograph showing the title of the film as the name of the protagonist Hamida (played by Shadia). The film is based on the 1947 novel zoqaq al-midaq by Naguib Mahfouz. Plot Summary: People of various nationalities and trades lived in Midaq Alley. This story is about Hamida and Hassan when he was treating her like a sister, but had no influence with her. Hamida was trying to leave poor Midaq and rise to a better life . Hamida was able to leave Midaq and work at the English prison in Abbasia where she met some of the English soldiers and supplied them with narcotics obtained in Midaq. Her mother could not control her. Abbas the barber was able to attract Hamida's attention for he loved her and wanted to marry her. She neither accepted nor refused but she was hoping for better. Abbas decided to go to the prison to get money. He went with Uncle Kamel the pastry seller to ask for Hamida's hand. She agreed to marry him after he returned. However Sayed Atwan the big merchant in Midaq wanted to marry Hamida too, even though he was already married. Hamida's mother refused to allow this even though Hamida was agreeable. However Sayed Atwan took a fall on the street and died of a heart attack a few days later. Ibrahim Farahat, who was running for Parliament, appeared in the neighborhood with Farag. Farag had succeeded in getting Hamida to go with him to the cinema. He then took her to his sumptious apartment where he tried to kiss her, but she ran away. The next day Hamida went to Farag without returning to Midaq, Farad turned his apartment into a dance school and nicknamed Hamida Titi. Abbas returned from vacation and did not find Hamida. Hussein quarreled with his father the old teacher who owned a coffee shop in Midaq and was planning to leave the neighborhood. The end of the war was announced, which embittered Farag. A drunken English soldier shot at Titi. She grabbed the gun, shot at Farag and he died. Abbas happened to be at the bar and he carried Hamida when she died at Midaq.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chaban, Naguib Mahfouz, Hassan Al Imam, Salah Kabil, Hassan Youssef, Abdel Waress Assar, Aly Hassan, Adly Kasseb, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Hassan el Baroudi, Aqila Ratib, Tewfik El Dekn, Souraya Helmy, Mohamed Reda, Choukoukou, Shadia, Samia Gamal, Hussein Riad

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Days and Nights [ايام و ليالي] - (Abdel Halim Hafez) - (1955) Egyptian one-sheet

Days and Nights [ايام و ليالي] (1955) - (Abdel Halim Hafez) Egyptian one-sheet poster

This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by Walid Wahib for the 1955 Henry Barakat musical Days and Nights based on a story by Henry Barakat and Youssef Gohar, screenplay by Henry Barakat, cinematography by Wahid Farid, music by Mohamed Abdel Wahab and starring 26-year-old Abdel Halim Hafez (1929-1977) as Yehia. Plot summary: A wealthy man married a woman who had divorced an irresponsible alcoholic painter [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. The wealthy man educated her two sons, one of whom was from another husband, and the boys grew up together like twins. Yehia, the son of the painter, loved Samia [Imane] but his brother made trouble for him and Samia turned away from him. They quarreled at a party when he was quite drunk and then he got in his car and killed a pedestrian. At his trial he confessed the truth. This caused tension in the family but when he returned to his father the painter, the father took responsibility for the first time; he had a reconciliation with his wife and his son when he saw the love between mother and son and the son's confession of the truth. The film includes the hit song Toba [Never Again]: Lyrics and translation

Cast and crew: Abdel Halim Hafez, Imane, Ahmed Ramzy, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Henry Barakat, Kamal Hussein, Seraj Munir, Aqila Ratib, Wahid Farid, Youssef Gohar, Ahmed Zaki, Adly Kasseb, Soheir El-Barouni, Samia Rushdy, Souraya Fakhry, Zeinat Alawy

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Who Is the Killer [من القاتل؟] (Samira Ahmed) - (1956) Egyptian oversize poster

Who Is the Killer? [من القاتل؟] (1956) - (Samira Ahmed) Egyptian oversize stone litho film poster

Pictured is a 35.5" x 47" oversize Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman to promote the 1956 Hassan El-Seify 89-minute black-and-white film Who Is the Killer? [min al-qatel?] starring Samira Ahmed based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Kamel Hassan with cinematography by Alevise Orphanelli. Plot summary: A girl was killed during a wedding celebration. An inspector [Adly Kasseb] arrived immediately to determine the murderer's identity. He questioned a number of people and found they all had good motives for killing the girl, but the real murderer turned out to be someone nobody suspected.

Cast and crew: Samira Ahmed, Ismail Yasseen, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Rushdy Abaza, Wedad Hamdy, Hassan El-Seify, Alevise Orphanelli, Mohsen Sarhan, Hussein Riad, Adly Kasseb, Gemayel Ezzedine, Rafia al-Shal, Amina Noureddine, Gamal Eddine Mahmoud, Abdel Azim Kamel, Soleyman al-Guindy, Alia Fawzi, Botheyna Hassan, Ahmed Soleyman, Mohamed Soleyman, Said Hassan, Ahmed Fouad, Abdel Ghani al-Guindy

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Who Is the Killer? [من القاتل؟] (Samira Ahmed) - (1956) Egyptian Oversize Film Poster

Who is the Killer? [min al-qatel] (1956) - (Samira Ahmed) Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a 35.5" x 47" oversize Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman to promote the 1956 Hassan El-Seify 89-minute black-and-white film Who Is the Killer? [min al-qatel?] starring Samira Ahmed based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Kamel Hassan with cinematography by Alevise Orphanelli. Plot summary: A girl was killed during a wedding celebration. An inspector [Adly Kasseb] arrived immediately to determine the murderer's identity. He questioned a number of people and found they all had good motives for killing the girl, but the real murderer turned out to be someone nobody suspected.

Cast and crew: Samira Ahmed, Ismail Yasseen, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Rushdy Abaza, Wedad Hamdy, Hassan El-Seify, Alevise Orphanelli, Mohsen Sarhan, Hussein Riad, Adly Kasseb, Gemayel Ezzedine, Rafia al-Shal, Amina Noureddine, Gamal Eddine Mahmoud, Abdel Azim Kamel, Soleyman al-Guindy, Alia Fawzi, Botheyna Hassan, Ahmed Soleyman, Mohamed Soleyman, Said Hassan, Ahmed Fouad, Abdel Ghani al-Guindy

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We Don't Plant Thorns [ نحن لا نزرع الشوك] (Shadia) - (1970) Egyptian Film Poster

We Don't Plant Thorns [nehnu la nezra al-shuk] (Shadia) - (1970) Egyptian film poster

Pictured is an undated Egyptian rerelease poster designed by Wahib Fahmy and Mohammad Abdel Aziz to promote the 1970 Hussein Kamal 109-minute black-and-white film We Don't Plant Thorns [nehnu la nezra al-shuk] starring Shadia and Mahmoud Yassine based on story and dialogue by Yousssef El Sebai with screenplay by Ahmed Saleh and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Sayeda [Shadia] suffered from torment and cruelty after her mother died as a result of the way she was treated by her father's wife. She took a job as a maid for the family of Abbas [Salah Kabil], who was interested in her and pursued her. She fled his home and took a job with the family of Hamdi al-Samaduni [Mahmoud Yassine]. This family treated her with love and kindness. Sayeda fell in love with Hamdi, but she soon learned he was planning to marry another girl. She therefore decided to marry Alam Marghama [Adly Kasseb], a thug and a seller of soft drinks, but later got into conflict with him. She bore his child, but ran away from him because of his violence. In this midst of this suffering she came under the influence of a pimp who got her into a brothel. There she saw Abbas, who had come to a whorehouse for the first time in his life. They reconciled and married, and she bore his son. Then Hamdi arrived and declared his love for her, there were more conflicts with Abbas and she was forced by court order to move into a marital obedience dwelling with him. When their child died she demanded and received a divorce from Abbas. After a short time Sayeda herself became ill and died with Hamdi at her bedside.

Cast and crew: Hussein Kamal, Salah Kabil, Shadia, Mahmoud Yassine, Abdelhalim Nasr, Karima Mokhtar, Adly Kasseb, Ahmed Al-Gezeiry, Naima Al Soghayar, Ahmed Saleh, Youssef El Sebai, Wafik Fahmy, Rawhiyya Khaled, Ahmed Al Jaziri, Mahmoud Al Iraqi, Mohamed Othman, Hamdy Youssef, Samiha Tawfik, Fatheyya Ali, Mohamed Abu Hashish, Thorayya Ezzeddine, Etedal Shaheen, Soher Tawfik, Mimi Gamal, Samir Tewfik, Amira, Kawsar al-Assal

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Chased by the Dogs [اللص والكلاب] (Shadia) - (1962)

Chased by the Dogs [al-liss wal-kelab] (1962) Egyptian 3-piece film poster

Pictured is a 35" x 41" three-piece Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Aziz to promote the 1962 124-minute Kamal El Sheikh black-and-white film Chased by the Dogs [al-liss wal-kelab] starring Shadia and Shukry Sarhan based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay by Sabry Ezzat, dialogue by Ali El Zorkani and cinematography by Kamal Korayem. Plot summary: Said Mahran [Shukry Sarhan] worked as a house servant in a student's home. Because of his mother's illness he had to steal a watch from a student. Raouf Alwan [Kamal al-Shennawi] got involved, tried to save him and took him as a protege in crime. Said became a big thief. His assistant Alish [Zein El-Ashmawy] informed on him so he would be free to marry his wife Nabawiya [Salwa Mahmoud]. When Said Mahran got out of prison his goal was to take revenge against Alish and Nabawiya, but he killed some innocent people instead by blindly shooting at window silhouettes, because Alish and Nabawiya had fled their home. Said ran away and became a fugitive. Raouf, who had become a famous journalist, denounced Said in newspaper articles, turning public opinion against him. Said confessed what he had done to his former lover Nour [Shadia] and lived in her house. He also sought solace with a Sufi sheikh but found no relief. Although Nour tried help him, the police found his hiding place and killed him on the Mokattam Mountain during a chase.

According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of the top 100 Egyptian films. The title is literally translated as The Thief and the Dogs.

Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Shadia, Shukry Sarhan, Kamal El Sheikh, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Fakher Fakher, Samir Sabri, Salah Mansour, Kamal Korayem, Ali El Zorkani, Sabry Ezzat, Salwa Mahmoud, Salah Jahine, Adly Kasseb, Zein El-Ashmawy, Nazim Shaarawy

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The Secrets of Girls [ اسرار البنات] - (Naglaa Fathy) - (1969)

The Secrets of Girls (1969) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour and Moaty to promote the 1969 Mahmoud Zulfikar 104-minute black-and-white film The Secrets of Girls [asrar al-banat] starring Naglaa Fathy based on a story by Adly El-Mowalid with screenplay and dialogue by Adly El-Mowalid, Abdel Fatah Al-Sayed and Farouk Said and cinematography by Kamal Korayem. Plot summary: This film is about lives of four schoolgirls, their family problems, their troubles at school and their relations with men. The end comes when three of them receive marriage proposals.

Cast and crew: Mahmoud Zulfikar, Naglaa Fathy, Hassan Youssef, Nelly, Youssef Fakhreddine, Nelly, Fatma Mazhar, Hala Fakher, Adly El-Mowalid, Abdel Fatah Al-Sayed, Farouk Said, Kamal Korayem, Badreddine Gamgoum, Adly Kasseb, Mimi Shakeeb, Tewfik El Dekn, Mohamed Reda, Nazim Shaarawy, Ibrahim Saafan, Fifi Youssef, Zizi Mustafa, Safinazi Qadri, Aleyah Abdel Monem, Qadria Kamel, Sayed Abdullah, Ahmed Abo Abeya, Abdel Moneim Bassioni

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Love and the Death Penalty حب واعدام (Samira Ahmed) - (1957) Egyptian one-sheet

Love and the Death Penalty [hob wa eedam] (1957) - (Samira Ahmed) Egyptian Film Poster

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made by an unknown designer to promote the 1957 Kamal El Sheikh film Love and the Death Penalty [hob wa eedam] starring Imad Hamdi and Samira Ahmed based on story and dialogue by Mohammad Kamel Hassan with cinematography by Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary: Samira [Samira Ahmed] prepared to move to her marriage home, but she was short of funds and found herself unable to finish the job. She asked her father Abdel Hamid [Abbas Fares] for a loan one day while he was playing cards with his mistress Soad [Aida Halal] and her brother Morsi [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. Samira got into a debate with her father but in anger he said "you are not my daughter." Samira left his home shouting "it is better for someone like that to die!" Morsi heard her say this and got the idea of killing the father and blaming the daughter. Morsi planned the crime carefully and invited Samira to pay a quiet visit to her father. Then he poisoned the father and put him to sleep. Samira came in and left her fingerprints everywhere, leaving the corpse and her handbag behind when she left. Samira was accused of the murder. Her husband the attorney Magdi [Imad Hamdi] saw a newspaper with bold headlines condemning Samira and tried to get her exonerated, but was unable to to do so and she was sentenced to death at the trial. In a happy ending, Samira was spared execution on the morning she was scheduled to die because of a last-minute disclosure of the real facts of the crime in surprise testimony by the murderer's sister, Soad.

Cast and crew: Kamal El Sheikh, Samira Ahmed, Imad Hamdi, Amina Rizk, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Muhammad Kamel Hassan, Aida Hilal, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Adly Kasseb, Abbas Fares, Wedad Hamdy, Aziza Helmy, Hassan Hamed, Hussein Ismail, Fotouh Neshati, Hussein Qandil, Ahmed Shawqi, Abdel Qader al-Masiri, Al-Sayed al-Arabi, Nasreddin Mostafa, Abdel Moneim Seoudi

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Life and Hope (1961)

Life and Hope [hayat wa amal] (1961) - (Imane) Egyptian film poster

This is a picture of a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Aziz to promote the 1961 95-minute Zoheir Bakir black-and-white film Life and Hope [hayat wa amal] starring Imane based on story and screenplay by Zoheir Bakir with dialogue by Adly Nour and cinematography by Ali Hassan. Plot summary: The famous soccer player Kamal married Salwa, the daughter of an industrialist, while at the same time her cousin was wanting to marry her. The two lived happily, then Kamal went abroad to play in a tournament. The plane crashed and everyone was killed except Kamal, who landed on the coast of Lebanon. A Lebanese girl picked him up, took him to her family and discovered he had lost his memory. She took care of him, and in his new identity he fell in love with her. Then they married. Back in Egypt after Salwa learned he had died she agreed to a paper marriage to her cousin. The years passed and Kamal became a success. He went to Egypt with his second wife to to sign a contract for a special deal in the textile business. Salwa saw him there and tried to tell him the truth, but his Lebanese wife kept a watch on this. Kamal didn't return to his original identity until he had been injured in an automobile accident. Then the Lebanese wife went back to her country after deciding to sacrifice her husband, and Kamal went back to Salwa.

Cast and crew: Imane, Ahmed Ramzy, Nagwa Fouad, Zoheir Bakir, Mahmoud Azmy, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Ahmed Mazhar, Ali Hassan, Julia Daw, Adly Kasseb, Nahed Samir, Mohamed Reda, Mohamed Al-Tayeb, Adly Nour, Yasmin, Ahmed Abu'ebia, Ebtesam Helmy, Abu Lam'a, Dr. Shadid, Kamal Al-Zeyni

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The Complaints of Girls شقاوة بنات (Soad Hosny) - (1963) Egyptian one-sheet

The Complaints of Girls (1963) - (Soad Hosny) Egyptian one-sheet

This is an Egyptian promotional poster for the 1963 85-minute Houssam El-Din Mustafa black-and-white film The Complaints of Girls starring Soad Hosny as Amani based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Adly El-Mowalid and with cinematography by Masud Isa. Plot summary: The story is set in the time before the 1952 23 July revolution. When the sons of Sheikh Salem, [Hussein Assar] who supervised Mahmoud Bey's [Adly Kasseb] farm, graduated from high school he decided to enroll them at Cairo University. Sheikh Salem went to Mahmoud Bey for help but he was against the idea of educating the children of farmers so Sheikh Salem's wife [Fatheya Ali] decided to sell her gold so she could send their boys Ibrahim and Ali to the university. Mahmoud Bey was angry and demanded that Sheikh Salem send his daughter Amani to work for him as a maid at his mansion. Despite the entreaties and tears of her parents Amani [Soad Hosny] had to go there and work as a maid, even though she had played with Mahmoud Bey's son Hossam [Ahmed Ramzi] since she was a child and they had fallen in love forever. However now she was a maid and because of that his father chose Shen Shen [Nawal Abul Foutouh] for him, the daughter of Prime Minister Al-Izmerli Pasha. Because of that marriage Mahmoud Bey was able to obtain money, an endowment and more wealth. Amani was angry about her childhood friend Hossam's proposal to Shen Shen, and she insulted her when she was walking with Hossam. Mahmoud Bey struck her with a whip, whereupon she ran away and got on a train to Cairo to look for her brothers. Her brothers Ibrahim and Ali had opened a sandwich stand inside the university to manage their expenses and their classmates were helping them. Amani came to support them. She worked with them and quickly became acquainted with their friends. She became so stylish that her brothers Ibrahim and Ali almost did not know her. For this reason Hossam, her childhood friend and a student at the same university, did not recognize her. Hossam loved Amani's new look and wanted to tell her he was in love with her, but one day she came to him in peasant clothes and told him who she was. Although he initially rebelled, in the end he asked her brother Ibrahim for her hand and love won the day despite the opposition from Sheikh Salem and Mahmoud Bey.

Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Soad Hosny, Ahmed Ramzy, Youssef Fakhreddine, Adly El-Mowalid, Masud Isa, Hassan Fayek, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Nawal Abul Foutouh, Adly Kasseb, Hussein Assar, Samira Mohsen, Mokhtar Amin, Nadia Al-Naqrashi, Nagy Esmail, Karima Al-Sharif, Qadria Kamel, Fatheya Ali

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Love of the Millionaire (1957)

Love of the Millionaire (1957) - (Samia Gamal) Egyptian one-sheet poster

Plot Summary: Salwa (Samia Gamal) was a beginning dancer in a big exhibition dance troupe; she was trying to become the star of the team. Sure of her talents, she cut through the ranks until she became the first dancer in the troupe. The rumor spread that there was a love connection between her and a young millionaire (Kamal Al-Shennawi). Theater director Rashid took advantage of this rumor and asked Salwa to rob him. The millionaire asked about the truth of the rumor; she believed he was a journalist and he learned from her that the report was not correct. She asked him to publish her denial of this rumor. The wealthy young man was pleased with Salwa's directness and told her the truth about himself. Feelings of love developed between them and they married. This film was directed by Atef Salem.

Cast and crew: Samia Gamal, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Atef Salem, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Said Abu Bakr, Klelio, Adly Kasseb, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Shafik Noureddin, Ahmed Louxor

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