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Saturday, July 28, 2018

Sea of Love بحر الغرام Naima Akef 1956 Egyptian film program

Sea of Love (1956) - (Naima Akef) Egyptian film program

Pictured is a 9.25" x 9.25" 12-page Egyptian program designed to promote the 1956 95-minute black-and-white film Sea of Love [bahr al-gharam] written and directed by Hussein Fawzi starring Naima Akef with screenplay by Hussein Fawzi and Amin Yousef Ghurab, dialogue by Amin Youssef Ghurab and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Touna [Naima Akef] and Amin [Rushdy Abaza] were sweethearts in Damietta in a fishing compound owned by their two fathers. They loved the constant clear skies and the pure waters of the Mediterranean but each became angry and jealous when seeing the other interacting casually with a member of the opposite gender. Amin's boat was caught in a storm and he was badly injured. A theater director [Youssef Wahby] recognized Touna's talent and offered her work as a performer, so she went to Cairo and became a showgirl so she could pay Amin's costly medical expenses at a Cairo hospital.

Cast and crew: Hussein Fawzi, Youssef Wahby, Naima Akef, Rushdy Abaza, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Amin Youssef Ghurab, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Samiha Tawfiq, El Sayed Bedeir, Abdel Waress Assar, Mokhtar Hussein, Saad Ahmed

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Friday, March 23, 2018

The Beast الوحش Anwar Wagdi Egyptian lobby card

The Beast (1954) - (Mahmoud El-Meliguy) Original Egyptian lobby card

This is a rare original 13" x 13.5" Egyptian lobby card with key art designed by Solly for the 1954 Salah Abouseif film The Beast AKA The Monster AKA Al-Wahsh based on a story by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz and Salah Abouseif, dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir and starring Anwar Wagdi as Officer Raouf Saleh. Plot summary: Abdel Sabour [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including the police. He enjoyed the protection of Redwan Pasha, [Abbas Fares] who in turn used him during elections to eliminate his rivals. Officer Raouf Saleh was sent to the village with his wife and son with the assignment of arresting The Beast. However The Beast and his gang worked together from the beginning trying to dispose of the officer and his family in any way possible. The photo shows Officer Raouf giving a cigarette to the Beast.

Cast and crew: Samia Gamal, Solly, El Sayed Bedeir, Anwar Wagdi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Abbas Fares, Salah Abouseif, Naguib Mahfouz, Abdelhalim Nasr, Abbas Fares, Samiha Ayyoub, Mohammad Tawfik, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Nazim Shaarawy, Mahmoud Hamdy

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

First Love اول غرام Samia Gamal 1956 Egyptian film program

First Love (1956) - (Samia Gamal) Egyptian film program

This is an original year 8" x 11" 12-page Egyptian film program for the 1956 Niazi Mostafa film First Love based on a story by Gerda Corbett and Botros Zarbenelli and starring Samia Gamal [1924 - 1994] as Zeinab. The program includes song lyrics, plot and key photographic images. Plot Summary: There was a quarrel between Senia the first dancer in a dance troupe and its director, and he fired her. This gave Zeinab an opportunity to be the troupe's lead dancer. However the group's main singer refused to sing in front of her. Zeinab suggested to the director that he give the opportunity to her lover, a novice singer named Salah, who succeeded with his first trial; this made Senia resent him. She told Salah Zeinab was in a relationship with the director, whereupon Salah's relationship with Zeinab soured. The director rehired Senia. There was a quarrel between Senia's assistants and Zeinab's assistants just before a performance began. When Zeinab performed she made a place for herself in the public eye. Then she went back to Salah, who had seen the truth.

Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Samia Gamal, Mohamed Mar'i, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Lola Sedki, Hassan Fayek, El Sayed Bedeir, Wadid Serri, Hesham Wadid Serri, Gerda Corbett, Botros Zarbenelli

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Sunday, March 18, 2018

The Beast الوحش Anwar Wagdi 1954 Egyptian one-sheet

The Beast (1954) - (Anwar Wagdi) Egyptian one-sheet

This is an original year 24" x 35" Egyptian one-sheet designed by Solly for the 1954 Salah Abouseif film The Beast AKA The Monster AKA Al-Wahsh based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz and Salah Abouseif, dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir and starring Anwar Wagdi as Officer Raouf Saleh. Plot summary: Abdel Sabour [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including the police. He enjoyed the protection of Redwan Pasha, [Abbas Fares] who in turn used him during elections to eliminate his rivals. Officer Raouf Saleh was sent to the village with his wife and son with the assignment of arresting The Beast. However The Beast and his gang worked together from the beginning trying to dispose of the officer and his family in any way possible.

Cast and crew: El Sayed Bedeir, Solly, Samia Gamal, Anwar Wagdi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Abbas Fares, Salah Abouseif, Naguib Mahfouz, Abdelhalim Nasr, Abbas Fares, Samiha Ayyoub, Mohammad Tawfik, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Nazim Shaarawy, Mahmoud Hamdy

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Saturday, July 8, 2017

She Lived for Love عاشت للحب (Zubaida Tharwat) - (1959) Egyptian one-sheet

She Lived for Love (1959) - (Zubaida Tharwat) Style B Egyptian one-sheet

Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made to promote the 1959 104-minute El Sayed Bedeir black-and-white film She Lived for Love ['ashat lil-hob] starring Zubaida Tharwat based on the novel The Ivy Vine [shagaret al-lablab] by Mohamed Abdel Halim Abdullah with dialogue by Salah Gowdet and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Hosny [Kamal Al-Shennawi] was troubled while he was growing up by his observations of marital infidelity among his relatives. When he grew up and went to medical school he lived in an apartment above the one inhabited by a woman named Zainab [Zubaida Tharwat], fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. Then when she showed an interest in other men he decided not to marry her after all, thinking she was like the other women he had known in his youth. Following advice from Zainab's sister Rashida [Laila Taher] and his friend Khairat [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] he eventually changed his mind and decided to marry her after all.

Cast and crew: El Sayed Bedeir, Zubaida Tharwat, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Laila Taher, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Abdelhalim Nasr, Hermine, Mohamed Abdel Halim Abdullah, Saleh Gowdet, Mary Ezzedine, Salwa Mahmoud, Aziza Helmy, Abdallah Gheith, Wedad Hamdy, Kamal Hussein, Mohamed Shawqi, Hussein Assar, Abdel Aziz Hamdy

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Sunday, April 16, 2017

She Lived for Love عاشت للحب (Zubaida Tharwat) - (1959) Egyptian one-sheet

She Lived for Love

(1959) - (Zubaida Tharwat) Egyptian one-sheet

Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made to promote the 1959 104-minute El Sayed Bedeir black-and-white film She Lived for Love ['ashat lil-hob] starring Zubaida Tharwat based on the novel The Ivy Vine [shagaret al-lablab] by Mohamed Abdel Halim Abdullah with dialogue by Salah Gowdet and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Hosny [Kamal Al-Shennawi] was troubled while he was growing by his observations of marital infidelity among his relatives. When he grew up and went to medical school he lived in an apartment above the apartment inhabited by a woman named Zainab [Zubaida Tharwat], fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. Then when she showed an interest in other men he decided not to marry her after all, thinking she was like the other women he had known in his youth. Under the influence of advice from Zainab's sister Rashida [Laila Taher] and his friend Khairat [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] he eventually changed his mind and decided to marry her after all.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Abu Dahab (1954) - (Hoda Soltan) ابو دهب Egyptian oversize poster

Abu Dahab (1954) - (Hoda Soltan) Egyptian poster

This is a 33.5" x 45" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1954 Helmy Rafla film Abu Dahab based on story and screenplay by Zoheir Bakir, dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir and starring Hoda Soltan. Plot summary: Hassan Bar'i [Zaki al-Harami] was the gangleader in a narcotics smuggling and distribution company operating behind a front company for the distribution of medical supplies. He met Amina Hassan [Qowat al-Qoloub], got her pregnant and then refused to marry her, so she tried to shoot him. However Sabiet al-Atara [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] killed him instead. Sabiet nominated his colleague Abu Dahab [Farid Shawqi] to replace Bar'i but he refused to do it and recommened al-Akta', [Mohamed Sabih] one of al-'Atara's backers, to run the election; they made arrangements for al-Atara to win. However the arrangements failed and and Abu Dahab won. Abu Dahab and al-Atara were outwardly friends but they competed for the love of the singer Ehsan [Hoda Soltan], who preferred and eventually married Abu Dahab. Abu Dahab was then reported, arrested for smuggling and given a seven-year prison sentence.

Cast and crew: Helmy Rafla, Zoheir Bakir, El Sayed Bedeir, Hoda Soltan, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mounir Al-Fangari, Rashad Hamid, Mousen Hassanein, Abdel Ghani Nagdi, Qowat al-Qoloub, Zaki Al-Harami, Mohamed Sabih, Ahmed Mokhtar

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

A Wife's Confessions [اعترافات زوجة] (Hind Rostom) Egyptian Oversize Stone Litho Poster

A Wife's Confessions [اعترافات زوجة] (1956) - (dir: Hassan Al Imam) Egyptian oversize stone litho film poster

This is a 35" x 47" oversize Egyptian stone litho poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1956 Hassan Al Imam film A Wife's Confessions [eeterafat zawga] based on a story by Hassan Al Imam, screenplay by Mohamed Osman and El Sayed Bedeir and starring Hind Rostom as Dusa. Plot summary: The seamstress Dusa runs a house of prostitution through her home. Nadia came to see her about sewing her a dress. Dusa liked her. She told Nadia her husband had a relationship with someone else. Nadia neglected her home and her children and fell in love with Ahmed, then asked for a divorce. Her husband tried to get her back but failed. Then Nadia and Ahmed had a fight and she killed him. The police arrested her; meanwhile Dusa's house burned down.

Cast and crew: Hind Rostom, Mohamed Osman, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Zouzou Nabil, Mohsen Sarhan, Hassan Al Imam, Amina Nour Eddine, \ Mostafa Hassan, El Sayed Bedeir

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

Hamido [حميدو] (Farid Shawqi) - (1953) Egyptian film program

Hamido (1953) - (Farid Shawqi) Egyptian film program

This is a an Egyptian program folder with eight unbound collage sheets from the 1953 Niazi Mostafa film Hamido based on a story by Farid Shawqi with screenplay by El Sayed Bedeir and Niazi Mostafa, dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir, cinematography by Wahid Farid and starring Farid Shawqi as Hamido. This was quite a popular film in Egypt but original posters and other memorabilia for it are quite rare. Plot summary: Hamido was a fisherman near Alexandria who was trying to get ahead by dealing in narcotics, which was the shortest route to wealth. He joined a narcotics gang and courted a girl named Sa'dia [Hoda Soltan] who was working for his mother. She trusted him and fell in love with him, but then he seduced her and started avoiding her. He regretted his promise to marry her because he had taken up with Fawzia [Taheya Cariocca] the girlfriend of the leader of his gang [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] and taken over leadership of the gang. When his mother realized Sa'dia was pregnant she threw her out of the house, but then Sa'dia told the mother the truth about her son's narcotics dealing. Hamido overheard this angry denunciation; he took Sa'dia out on a boat ride in the sea so he could drown her with her shame and be done with her. However she was later rescued by a fishing boat that happened to pass. A police agent disguised himself, infiltrated Hamido's narcotics gang and arrested them, but Hamido himself fled and was killed before he could be arrested.

Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Wahid Farid, Farid Shawqi, Hoda Soltan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Marie Munib, El Sayed Bedeir, Taheya Cariocca, Ferdoos Mohammed, Said Abu Bakr, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Mohsen Hassanein, Anwar Zaki, Hassan Hamed, Ne'mat Mokhtar, Suleiman al-Nagdi, Abdel Magid Shukry, Abdel Hamid Badawi

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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, June 24, 2014

Sea of Love [بحر الغرام] (Naima Akef) - (1956) Original Year Egyptian Film Poster

Sea of Love [bahr al-gharam] (1956) - (Naima Akef) original Egyptian stone litho film poster

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour and Dimitri Gabriel to promote the 1956 95-minute Hussein Fawzi black-and-white film Sea of Love [bahr al-gharam] starring Naima Akef based on a story by Hussine Fawzi with screenplay by Hussein Fawzi and Amin Yousef Ghurab, dialogue by Amin Youssef Ghurab and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Touna [Naima Akef] and Amin [Rushdy Abaza] were sweethearts in Damietta in a fishing compound owned by their two fathers. They loved the constant clear skies and the pure waters and each became angry and jealous when perceiving the other interacting casually with a member of the opposite gender. Amin's boat was caught in a storm and he was badly injured. A theater director [Youssef Wahby] recognized Touna's talent and offered her work as a performer, so she went to Cairo and became a showgirl so she could pay Amin's costly medical expenses at a Cairo hospital.

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Love Taxi [تاكسي الغرام] (Hoda Soltan) - (1954)

Love Taxi [taksi al-gharam] (1954) Egyptian film poster

This is an original 22" x 34" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1954 111-minute Niazi Mostafa black-and-white film Love Taxi [taksi al-gharam] starring Hoda Soltan based on story and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary with screenplay by Niazi Mostafa and cinematography by Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary: A wealthy girl took a ride in a taxi one day and she and the driver fell in love, but the driver was ashamed to show his feelings because of the huge difference in their social classes. She asked him to marry her but he refused for that reason. She then tried to trick him by dressing as a poor girl who worked as a singer in a nightclub. The driver fell in love with the singer, only to discover she was the same rich girl. After overcoming interference from a few people they knew, they finally married.

Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Hoda Soltan, Abdel Aziz Mahmoud, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, El Sayed Bedeir, Hassan Fayek, Zeinat Sedki, Said Abu Bakr, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Abu Seoud El-Ibairy, Kheiria Kheiry, Hekmat, Fawzi Ibrahim

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Friday, February 7, 2014

Sleepless [لا أنام] - (Faten Hamama) - (1958)

Sleepless [la anam] (dir: Salah Abouseif) (1962) Egyptian film poster

This is an undated Egyptian rerelease poster made to promote the 1958 Salah Abouseif 121-minute color film Sleepless [la anam] starring Faten Hamama and Omar Sharif based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay by El Sayed Bedeir and Salah Ezzedine, dialogue by Saleh Gawdat and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Nadia's [Faten Hamama] father [Yehia Chahine] divorced her mother and she grew up in her father's care. He did not remarry and dedicated his life to educating and caring for his daughter. When Nadia was 16 her father married Safia [Mariam Fakhr Eddine] who was a lady of nobility, but Nadia was alienated from the woman who came to take her mother's place in her father's castle. Nadia met Mostafa [Imad Hamdi] at a party and began dating him and frequenting his apartment without the knowledge of her family. Then Mostafa met her father's wife at a party and showed an interest in her. Nadia became more jealous of her, which led to her banishment from the house. Nadia deceived her father into believing there was a sinful relationship between his wife and his brother Aziz [Omar Sharif] who was living in the house with him. The father divorced his wife and she departed from the home, leaving Nadia lady of the house once more. Nadia felt remorse of conscience and arranged for her father to marry Kawsar [Hind Rostom], an old associate of hers they encountered while on a beach in Alexandria. However she quickly discovered that her father's new wife Kawsar had a lover named Samir [Rushdy Abaza] to whom she intended to give the wealth of Nadia's father. Nadia recorded a telephone conversation between them demonstrating this. She refrained from telling the truth to her father to keep from ruining his marriage a second time. Her suffering increased when she realized Mostafa did not love her after all and that he had gone to Safia after the divorce and courted her for himself. Her father came upon Mostafa's new wife with her lover and Nadia had to convince her father that he was her own lover who had come to court her. However Nadia could not continue the deception and finally told her father the truth on the wedding night. Fate intervened another time when a candle set fire to Nadia's wedding gown right after she had refused to marry Samir during a forced ceremony and was taken to a hospital, where they saved her life leaving her body disfigured with burns. This film is included on critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of Egypt's 100 most important films.

Cast and crew: Imad Hamdi, Hind Rostom, Salah Abouseif, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Faten Hamama, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Omar Sharif, Rushdy Abaza, Yehia Chahine, Abdelhalim Nasr, Mahmoud Nasr, Rafia al-Shal, Salah Ezzedine, El Sayed Bedeir, Saleh Gawdat

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Sunday, January 26, 2014

She Lived for Love [عاشت للحب] - (Zubaida Tharwat) - (1959)

She Lived for Love (Zubaida Tharwat) (1991) Egyptian film poster

Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made to promote the 1959 104-minute El Sayed Bedeir black-and-white film She Lived for Love ['ashat lil-hob] starring Zubaida Tharwat based on the novel The Ivy Vine [shagaret al-lablab] by Mohamed Abdel Halim Abdullah with dialogue by Salah Gowdet and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Hosny [Kamal Al-Shennawi] was troubled while he was growing by his observations of marital infidelity by his relatives. When he grew up and went to medical school he lived in an apartment above the apartment inhabited by a woman Zainab [Zubaida Tharwat], fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. Then when she showed an interest in other men he decided not to marry her after all, thinking she was like the other women he had known in his youth. Under that influence of advice from Zainab's sister Rashida [Laila Taher] and his friend Khairat [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] he eventually changed his mind and decided to marry her after all.

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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Samara [سمارة] - (Taheya Cariocca) - (1956)

Samaraa (Taheya Cariocca) (1956) Egyptian film poster

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

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Friday, January 3, 2014

Platform Number 5 (1956) - (Farid Shawqi) رصيف نمرة ٥

Platform Number 5 (1956) - (Farid Shawqi) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman to promote the 1956 101-minute Niazi Motafa black-and-white film Platform Number 5 [rasif nemra khamsa] starring Farid Shawqi based on a story by Farid Shawqi with screenplay by El Sayed Bedair, Niazi Mostafa and Barti Mostafa, dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir and cinematography by Alvisy Orphanily. Plot summary: A gang was smuggling heroin through the port of Alexandria and Navy Sergeant Khamis [Farid Shawqi (1920-1998)] was trying to catch them. The gang tricked Khamis with a telephone call and caused him to leave his post. While he was away from his post the gang stole his rifle, which resulted in him being discharged from the navy. One night one of the gang members named Basyouni [Zaki Rostom (1903-1972)] killed Khamis's wife, but the killing was witnessed by a mute maid. The killer was also smuggling heroin with the help of homing pigeons. In the meantime Khamis had fallen in love with a singer in a bar [Hoda Soltan (1925-2006)]; after catching the killer/smuggler, Khamis married her and was reinstated in the navy after it was determined that what he had done was in the line of duty. When this film was made Farid Shawqi and Hoda Soltan were already married (1951) in real life.

Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Niazi Mostafa, Hoda Soltan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Zaki Rostom, Alvisy Orphanily, Fakher Fakher, Malak El Gamal, Soliman Gendy, Naima Wasfy, El Sayed Bedeir, Barti Mostafa, Abdel Ghani al Sayed, Anwar Zaki

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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Love Sweeter than Love حب احلى من الحب (Naglaa Fathy) - (1975) Egyptian one-sheet

Love Sweeter than Love (1975) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown designer made to promote the 1975 Helmy Rafla film Love Sweeter than Love [hob ahla min al-hob] starring Naglaa Fathy and Mahmoud Yassine based on El Sayed Bedir's adaptation of the Robert Wise film The Sound of Music with screenplay and dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa Sami and cinematography by Essam Farid. Plot summary: The attorney Refaat [Mahmoud Yassine] had trouble finding a nanny for his five children after they had rejected the other nanny for various reasons. He was hoping the new nanny Laila [Naglaa Fathy] would be better than her predecessor. Laila turned out to be a big success and the children loved her, which brought harmony and order to the home. Refaat fell in love with Laila and asked her to marry him; she agreed and became his wife and a mother to his children. Naglaa Fathy is lovely and does a lot of nice singing and skipping in this film as Laila, but she's a far cry from Julie Andrews.

Cast and crew: Helmy Rafla, Nabila El Sayed, Leila Hamada, Sayed Zayan, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, El Sayed Bedeir, Mohammad Mostafa Sami, Essam Farid, Nadia Al-Kilani, Nabila El Sayed, Farouq Naguib, Taghrid Ali, Laila Sabouni, Sayed Zayan, Sabrin, Aziza Amir