This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1956 musical Girls Today
written and directed by Henry Barakat, music by Mohamed
Abdel Wahab and starring Abdel Halim Hafez as Khaled. Plot summary:
Salwa [Magda] and Laila [Amal Farid] are sisters with vastly different
personalities. Salwa is quiet and polite while Laila is extroverted
and cheerful. Khaled gets into a romance with Laila, which brings out
their differences. Khaled soon turns his attention to Laila's sister
Salwa, but his artist friend Fathy [Ahmed Ramzy] is also attracted to
her.
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Youssef Issa, Abdel Halim Hafez,
Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Magda, Ahmed Ramzy, Amal Farid, Seraj Munir,
Soraya Fakhry, Fathiya Shahin, Kariman, Abdel Azim Kamel, Hussain
Ismail, Mokhtar El Sayed, Ahmed Khorshid
Pictured is an undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by an
unknown artist for the 1960 Houssam El-din Mustafa 90-minute color
film Farewell to Love [wedaan ya hob] with story, screenplay
and dialogue by Fathy Abol-Fadl and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel
Azim. Plot summary: Sharif [Muharram Fouad] was a young musician who
did not complete his university studies. One day he found a gold chain
in front of the Opera belonging to Amani [Mariam Fakhr Eddine]. He
went to return it to her after reading a report about the loss of the
chain. He met Amani on a farm and refused the reward. She asked him
to manage the farm, which improved Ramzy's [Khalil Badreddine]
straitened circumstances at a time when he was wanting to seize
Amani's money. Things improved on the farm and it produced a return,
but Ramzi, who was trying to manage Sharif, became more angry. He told
Amani that a woman had come to him on the farm. Amani's cousin Samir
came and told her he would love to marry her in accordance with her
father's command. Feelings of love developed between Sharif and Amani
and she asked her uncle to help Sharif sing at the Opera. She gave him
some money and Sharif made a successful appearance while Ramzi became
more angry; he followed Sharif when he returned to the village after
the ceremony and shot him. The people were able to catch the killer
but they were not able to save the life of the musician.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1959 Mahmoud Zulfikar
musical Forbidden Women written by Amin Yousseff Ghurab and
starring Hoda Soltan as Mahasen. Plot summary: The contractor Tareq
[Hussein Riad] was unable to have any children by his wife Hafiza
[Amina Rizk] so he adopted Ahmed, [Salah Zulfikar] who later managed
his work for him and formed a relationship with a woman named
Mahasen. Ahmed formed an illicit relationship with her without knowing
she was married to Tewfiq. Mahasen had a daughter named laila [Amal
Farid]; Ahmed became interested in her without realizing she was his
own daughter.
Cast and crew: Hoda Soltan, Salah Zulfikar, Amina Rizk, Mahmoud
Zulfikar, Hussein Riad, Amin Yousseff Ghurab, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Amal
Farid, Wedad Hamdy, Mohammad Shawqi, Fifi Said, Mohsen Hassanein,
Hussein Assar, Hussein Ismail
This is an Egyptian 27" x 39" undated rerelease one-sheet poster for
the 1955 Helmy Rafla film My Nights of Love starring Abdel
Halim Hafez as Ahmed Momtaz. Plot summary: Ahmed Momtaz was a
low-level employee who invented a type of fireproof cloth. He offered
his invention to his direct supervisor, who in turn offered it to the
one above him and so on until it reached the executive director. Each
person in the chain took credit for the invention himself. He went
with his colleague to see the executive director at his home where
they were having a costume party. He met the director's daughter
thinking she was the maid, and they liked each other. She thought he
was a millionaire because he had the same name as the millionaire
Ahmed Momtaz. The real millionaire appeared, who was courting the
girl. The director discovered the truth. Ahmed tried to prove to the
director that he was the owner of the invention. There was a
confrontation between the employee and the millionaire, which ended in
Ahmed's favor. He married his love after the director learned the
truth about the invention.
Cast and crew: Abdel Halim Hafez, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Helmy Rafla, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Amal Farid, Mahmoud Nasr, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Ismail Al-Hebrouk, Seraj Munir, Salah Nazmi, Mohammed Abdel Koddous, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Aziza Helmy, Hind Alam, Shafik Noureddin, Wedad Hamdy, Said Khalil, Mohamed al-Dib
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian rerelease poster designed to promote the
1959 105-minute Atef Salem black-and-white film We Are the
Students [ehna al-talamiza] based on a story by Tewfik Saleh and
Kamel Youssef with screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz, dialogue by Mohamed
Abu Youssef and cinematography by Bruno Salvi. The film was
originally distributed by the Dollar Film Company. Plot summary: The
three students Adel [Omar Sharif], Hassanein [Shukry Sarhan] and Samir
[Youssef Fakhr Eddine] all had problems. Adel loved his neighbor
Saham [Amal Farid], but her father refused to allow them to marry and
banned him from the house. Hassanein's uncle [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]
came to him from upper Egypt to emphasize the importance of rising up
against the ones who had killed his father. Samir was suffering from
his father's neglect. Samir and the maid Fatma [Ferdoos Mohammed] had
illicit relations and she became pregnant. Adel learned from the
dancer Gamalat [Taheya Cariocca] about Fatma's miscarriage. The three
robbed the bar where they drank to get the money to provide medical
treatment for the miscarriage but the money they stole did not cover
the costs and Fatma died. Gamalat screamed and the neighbors and the
police came. They were all tried and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of the top
100 Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Atef Salem, Shukry Sarhan, Omar Sharif, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Taheya Cariocca, Bruno Salvi, Tewfik Saleh, Amal Farid, Kamel Youssef, Mohamed Abu Youssef, Youssef Fakhreddine, Zizi El-Badrawy, Abdelaziz Ahmed, Tahani Rached, Kamal Hussein, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Ferdoos Mohammed, Fouad Shafik, Mimi Shakeeb, Nagwa Fouad
Pictured is an original 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made to promote the
1960 127-minute Salah Abouseif black-and-white film The Dead among
the Living [bedaya wa nehaya] based on a novel by Naguib Mahfouz
with screenplay by Salah Ezzedine, dialogue by Ahmed Shawqi and Kamel
Abdel Salam and cinematography by Kamal Korayem. Plot summary: The
head of the household died leaving the family suffering from hardship
and deprivation. The oldest son Hassan [Farid Shawqi] ended up living
in a depraved neighborhood dealing in drugs and women. Hussein [Kamal
Hussein] the middle son took work with his middle school diploma to
provide an opportunity for his brother Hassanein [Omar Sharif] to
complete his studies and go to the war college. The daughter Nafisa
[Sanaa Gamil] was without beauty and found herself driven out of the
life of Soliman [Salah Mansour] the grocer after sinning with him.
She continued on this disreputable path without any friends. She
helped her brother Hassanein and her mother [Amina Rizk] with small
amounts of money she had acquired. Hassanein graduated as an officer.
He turned his back on his family, his fiancee Bayeha [Amal Farid] and
his social milieu and rose to associate with the wealthy class through
marriage. Hassan returned to his family broken-hearted, wounded and
driven out of the police force. At the same time Hassanein was
summoned to the police station because his sister had been accused of
debauchery. Hassanein was in denial at first, but then knocked Nafisa
down, kicked dirt on her and finally goaded her into drowning herself
to eliminate the scandal after he was forced to acknowledge her guilt.
This is the confrontation depicted on the poster. Then when it was too
late he regretted her death, thought about his own life, saw his own
world in ruins and jumped into the Nile himself.
This film is on film critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Farid Shawqi, Amina Rizk, Amal Zayed, Sanaa Gamil, Kamal Hussein, Salah Mansour, Omar Sharif, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Kamal Korayem, Naguib Mahfouz, Amina Rizk, Amal Farid, Hamed Morsi, Ahmed Shoukry, Souraya Fakhry, Mokhtar Hussein, Mohamed Hamdi, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Kamal Karim, Salah Ezzedine, Ahmed Shawqi, Kamel Abdel Salam
Pictured is an undated Egyptian rerelease poster designed by an
unknown artist to promote the 1960 Essa Karama 109-minute
black-and-white film My Mother-in-Law Is an Angel [hamati
malak] starring Ismail Yasseen as Khamis based on a story by Essa
Karama with screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Fattah El-Said and
cinematography by Satrollah Karama. Plot summary: Khamis the
undertaker asked his girlfriend the maid Bar'u'a [Khayria Ahmed] to
tell him about it if there were deaths in any of the homes where she
worked so he could make the funeral arrangements. The maid told him
her boss Sabri [Youssef Fakhr Eddine] had died of grief because of
what his mother-in-law Fayeqa Hanem [Marie Munib] had done to him, and
his wife was in mourning. Khamis went to the home to make the
necessary funeral arrangements without knowing that Sabri was only
pretending to be dead on the advice of his friend Kamal [Kamal
Hussein] to get revenge against the mother-in-law and so he could find
out how much his wife Samia [Amal Farid] loved him. Sabri also tried
to frighten his mother-in-law by pretending to be his own ghost. In a
comedic mishap Khamis knocked the supposedly dead Sabri unconscious,
then put him in a cupboard and replaced it with another cupboard; when
he was accused of losing the corpse he tried to find the original
cupboard in a cinematic shell game with many identical antique
cupboards similar to the one shown on the poster, in a hotel and at a
furniture auction. When Samia tried to kill herself Sabri knew how
much she loved him so he stopped pretending to be dead and hurried
back home, where the mother-in-law went through a final scare scene
when he reappeared.
Cast and crew: Essa Karama, Ismail Yasseen, Abdel Fattah El-Sayed, Marie Munib, Amal Farid, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Khayria Ahmed, Mohamed Nabih, Satrollah Karama, Abdel Fattah El-Said, Kamal Hussein, Al-Doktor Shadid, Bijou, Abdel Hamid Badawi, Adib al-Tarabolsi, Mary Ezzedine
This film was directed by Helmy Rafla, based on Oscar Wilde's story
"The Importance of Being Earnest," screenplay Youssef Gohar, dialogue
Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, cinematography Wahid Farid; poster art is by
Magdi Mahmoud. Plot summary: Adel (Abdel Halim Hafez) was a boy whose
father left him a big building. He dissipated its rentals in the bar
and on Kiki's health. Adel's partner was Nufal from Syracuse. His
job was attorney for the wealthy Redwan Beg's office. Nufal took over
the finances and spent the money on bottles of champagne under Kiki's
feet. Adel visited his rich Aunt and saw for the first time his
daughter Saham. The meeting between Adel and his aunt ended with
Adel's anger and it affected Saham. Saham met Nufal at her cousin's
home. She heard Adel sing and and thought he was Nufal and the sound
of the beautiful voice made her love Nufal. Adel heard a lot about
Amal, "Mona Badr," the daughter of the owner of the village in which
Nufal worked. He visited her and immediately found her to be a
pleasant girl. Adel loved her and she reciprocated. In the end Nufal
married Saham and Amal married Adel.
Cast and crew: Abdel Halim Hafez, Amal Farid, Hassan Fayek, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Helmy Rafla, Oscar Wilde, Youssef Gohar, Oscar Wilde, Wahid
Farid, Abou Seoud El-Ibiary, Mona Badr, Saham, Mimi Shakeeb, Wedad Hamdy, Zaki Ibrahim, Samia Rushdy, Abbas al-Dali, Ahmed Abdel Fattah, Ibrahim Heshmat, Farida Fahmy, Mahmoud Reda
