Hassan and Hassan حسن و حسن Mohammed Al Kahlawi 1944 Egyptian film program

Hassan and Hassan (1944) - (Mohammed Al Kahlawi) Egyptian film program

This is a 7" x 10" first printing of 16-page Egyptian program for the 1944 Niazi Mostafa 105-minute black-and-white film Hassan and Hassan [hassan wa hassan] starring Mohammed Al Kahlawi based on a screenplay by Niazi Mostafa with story and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary and cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. The film was produced and distributed by Nahas Film. The program has a plot, song lyrics and cast photographs. Plot summary: One Hassan drove a taxi and the other was a hustler. The hustler married the cousin of the brother of the taxi driver so he could drain his assets with the delusion of the existence of a profitable company. On the train the two of them met Houria, a girl from a conservative family and they both loved her, but she had a maid who was going to marry Hassan the hustler. Houria's family was angry because her daughter was marrying a driver and they beat him. The hustler tricked Houria's father and almost went to prison but Hassan the driver intervened to save him, and he persuaded the family to accept him.

Cast and crew: Mohammed Al Kalhawi, Marcel, Houriyya Mohamed, Bechara Wakim, Niazi Mostafa, Mostafa Hassan, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Leila Helmy, Ferdoos Mohammed, Mahmoud Ismail, Choukoukou, Hager Hamdi, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Abdul Hamid Zaki, Latif Amin, Al-Sayed Abu Bakr, Zaki Ibrahim

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Zeinab زينب (Raqiya Ibrahim) - (1952) Egyptian one-sheet

Zeinab (1952) - (Raqiya Ibrahim) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown artist for an undated rerelease of the 1952 Mohammed Karim film Zeinab based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohammad Hussein Heikal and starring Raqiya Ibrahim as Zeinab. Plot summary: Zeinab, a country girl who lived at the beginning of the 20th century, was in love with Ibrahim, [Yehia Chahine] who worked on the basha's estate. Her father was opposed to her love for Ibrahim and decided she had to marry a rich boy named Hassan [Farid Shawqi]. Ibrahim left the village, Zeinab got tuberculosis and Hassan's family refused to treat her. When Ibrahim returned he was concerned about her and tried to help.

Cast and crew: Mohammed Karim, Muhammad Hussein Heikal, Yehia Chahine, Raqiya Ibrahim, Farid Shawqi, Shahrzad, Sami Brail, Suleiman Naguib, Abdel Waress Assar, Ferdoos Mohammed, Hussein Assar, Sanaa Gamil, Naima Wasfy, Wedad Hamdy

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Heart of Gold قلب من دهب (Mariam Fakhr Eddine) - (1959) Egyptian one-sheet

Heart of Gold (1959) - (Mariam Fakhr Eddine) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1959 90-minute black-and-white Mohammed Karim film Heart of Gold ['alb min dahab] starring Mariam Fakhr Eddine based on a screenplay by Mohammed Karim with dialogue by Abdel Waress Assar and cinematography by Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary: This film tells the story of a strange turn of events where a woman believes she has killed a pedestrian woman while driving, then ends up marrying the dead woman's husband, who already knew her and happened to be in love with her.

Cast and crew: Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Abdel Waress Assar, Imad Hamdi, Ferdoos Mohammed, Muhammed Karim, Sanaa Gamil, Aziza Helmy, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Sabry Abdel Aziz, Kamel Anwar, Kamel Al-Zini, Salah al-Masri

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Eve of the Wedding ليلة الحنة Shadia (1951) Egyptian two-piece poster

Eve of the Wedding (1951) - (Shadia) Egytian two-piece poster

This is a 35" x 46" two-piece poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the 1951 Anwar Wagdi film Eve of the Wedding [lailet al-henna] starring Shadia as Hurria and Kamal Al-Shennawi as Hassan. Plot summary: The film recounts the troubled circumstances of an impending marriage between a singer and her lover. The story is complicated by a pregnancy, social objections to the woman's occupation as a singer, parental disapproval and threats and manipulations from a cabaret owner struggling to control a popular singer about to quit her job.

Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Shadia, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Marie Munib, Seraj Munir, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Mahmoud Reda, Reyad El Kasabgy, Wahid Farid, Ferdoos Mohammed, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Stephan Rosti, Wedad Hamdy, Kitty, Hussein Ibrahim, Abdel Hamid Bodaoha, Mohamed Abu al-Seoud, Hassan Qatla, Taga Zaki, Abdel Aziz Said

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The Big Brother الاخ الكبير Farid Shawqi (1959) Egyptian one-sheet

The Big Brother (1959) - (Farid Shawqi) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1959 Fatin Abdel Wahab film The Big Brother based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ali El Zorkani and starring Farid Shawqi as Awad. Plot summary: Big brother Awad took care of his family including his mother, [Ferdoos Mohammed] his brother Ahmed [Ahmed Ramzi] and his niece Dawlat [Farida Fahmy]. The family thought he was working as a respectable tradesman but he was actually the head of a narcotics gang. He was loved by Ruhia, [Hend Rostom] a dancer who also worked with him in the narcotics trade. Ruhia had a great desire to marry Awad but he refused. She then became interested in Awad's brother Ahmed who was in his final year of law school.

Cast and crew: Fatin Abdel Wahab, Ali El Zorkani, arid Shawqi, Hend Rostom, Ahmed Ramzy, Ferdoos Mohammed, Mohammed Tawfik, Farida Fahmy, Ali El Zorkani, Saeed Abu Bakr, Reyad El Kasabgy, Mahmoud al-Seba, Mahmoud Azmi, Said Khalil, Mohammad al-Tukhi

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Eternal Love حبيب الروح Laila Mourad 1952 Egyptian one-sheet

Eternal Love (1952) - (Anwar Wagdi) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour and Ahmed Fouad for the 1952 film Eternal Love [habib al-ruh]. The film was written and directed by its star Anwar Wagdi with cinematography by Wahid Farid. It tells the story of a talented woman named Layla [Laila Mourad] who gives up her promising musical profession for the benefit of her husband Wahid [Anwar Wagdi] who needs her and demands that she devote herself to him instead of her career as a performer.

Cast and crew: Youssef Wahby, Mimi Shakeeb, Ferdoos Mohammed, Ibrahim Emara, Wedad Hamdy, Abdel Nabi Mohammed, Wahid Farid, Anwar Wagdi, Laila Mourad, Salah Mansour

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I Won't Forget You [بفكر في اللي ناسيني] - (Hind Rostom) - (1959) Egyptian one-sheet

I Won't Forget You [بفكر في اللي ناسيني] (1959) - (Hind Rostom) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Walid Wahig for the 1959 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film I Won't Forget You [بفكر في اللي ناسيني based on a screenplay by Mohamed Osmani, story and dialogue by Abdel Hamid Gawda al-Sahar and starring Hind Rostom as Sawsan. Plot summary: Laila [Fayrouz] was in love with Engineer Hossam [Shukry Sarhan] and he wanted to propose to her, but her family would not allow them to marry until her big sister Sawsan married. Although Sawsan was beautiful and very appealing, nobody wanted to marry her because she was too egotistical and greedy. Then she suddenly became obsessed with Hossam and married him; Laila had a breakdown. After that Hossam's friend Kamal [Rushdy Abaza] instantly fell in love with Sawsan when she flirted with him, seemingly oblivious of Sawsan's marriage to his friend Hossam. Kamal turned his back on his wife and became so crazy about Sawsan that he quarreled with her when he found her talking to another man, so she yanked a heavy statue from a mantle and struck him on the head with it, killing him. They gave Sawsan a ten-year jail sentence; when Hossam heard what had happened he went back to his first love Laila, whom he had never forgotten.

Cast and crew: Hind Rostom, Fayrouz, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Rushdy Abaza, Zahrat El-Ola, Shukry Sarhan, Mohamed Osmani, Abdel Hamid Gawda al-Sahar, Ferdoos Mohammed, Fouad Shafik, Salah Nazmi, Yasmin

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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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I'm on My Own [ماليش حد] (Shadia) - (1953) Egyptian Oversize Film Poster

I'm on My Own [malish had] (1953) - (Shadia) original Egyptian 33x45 film poster

Pictured is an original year Egyptian 35"x45" poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1953 Ibrahim Emara 106-minute black-and-white film I'm on My Own [malish had] starring Shadia based ond story and dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa Sami with screenplay by Ebrahim Emara with cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A man [Abbas Fares] was living happily in Alexandria with his wife and daughters [Shadia and Magda], but after his wife died he found a love letter among her papers giving him the idea she might have betrayed him. As his doubts grew he began to think his two daughters might be from another man. He began to treat them harshly and took up drinking and gambling to forget. This caused him to lose all his money and his factories. His daughters ran away from home. He then realized his wife was innocent when he found a letter that had been written to his wife's sister. He regretted his behavior and tried to repair the damage he had done to his daughters and recover his lost fortune. He succeeded in doing this and the family's wounds were healed.

Cast and crew: Ibrahim Emara, Magda, Choukoukou, Shukry Sarhan, Shadia, Abbas Fares, Bruno Salvi, Mary Queenie, Mohamed Mustafa Sami, Ferdoos Mohammed, Samiha Tawfiq, Zeinat Sedki, Mahmoud El-Sebai, Zaki al-Fayoumi, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohamed al-Dib, Shafik Noureddin, Mohsen Hassanein, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Lutfi al-Hakim, Mohamed Soleiman

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Love's Tears دموع الحب (Mohamed Abdel Wahab) - (1936) Egyptian one-sheet

Love's Tears (1936) - (Mohamed Abdel Wahab) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian film poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1935 120-minute Mohammad Karim black-and-white -film Love's Tears [demou' al-hob] starring Mohamed Abdel Wahab based on a screenplay by Mohamed Karim from the 1832 Alphonse Karr novel Sous les tilleuls [Under the Lime Trees] with dialogue by Abdel Waress Assar and Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti and cinematography by Georges Benoit. Plot summary: Mohammad Fakri [Mohamed Abdel Wahab] was a talented artist who met Nawal [Negat Ali] while he was working on his Uncle Desouqi's farm. They fell in love. He was transferred to Cairo to work as a music teacher and they exchanged letters while he lived at the home of Uncle Desouqi [Abdel Waress Assar]. He told his friend Helmy [Soleiman Naguib], who was traveling to the farm to see her, everything that had happened between him and Nawal. Uncle Desouqi died and left 20 feddans of land. Mohammad went to the farm to marry Nawal and was surprised to find that Helmy had proposed to her. Nawal refused Mohammad, married Helmy and went to Paris with him. Mohammad became a famous musician while things got worse for Helmy because he was a gambler, and he died in an accident. Nawal tried to go back to Mohammad but he refused her and she decided to drown herself. Mohammad had a change of heart and sang to Nawal the song "O You Who Are Sleeping Beneath the Ground."

Cast and crew: Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Nagat Ali, Muhammad Karim, Abdel Waress Assar, Alphonse Karr, Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti, Georges Benoit, Mohammad Abdel Qodus, Soad Fakhri, Ferdoos Mohammed, Suleiman Naguib, Abdel Qader al-Masiri

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Love's Madness جنون الحب (Raqiya Ibrahim) - (1954) Egyptian one-sheet

Love's Madness (1954) - (Raqiya Ibrahim) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" poster designed by Marcel to promote the 1954 Mohammed Karim 120-minute black-and-white film Love's Madness [gonoun al-hob] starrring Raqiya Ibrahim as Nadia and Soheir with screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Waress Assar and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Nadia and Soheir were living a carefree life with their parents, but an imbalance developed when the parents began showing more affection for Nadia than Soheir, to the point where Soheir suspected her parents hated her and began hating society and her sister. This feeling grew for Soheir and she even came to believe people loved her sister and hated her. The young men who liked her did not hesitate to leave her when they saw Nadia. Even the ones who had made her marriage offers withdrew them. A conflict raged between the two sisters in this atmosphere charged with anger; one of them had the innocence of angels and the other was in a wretched state unable to find her way to happiness. Soheir looked for the misery of others. Her mother died, then her father. Soheir dominated Nadia like a tyrant and exploited her sensitivities and weaknesses. Nadia became her sister's victim. She was afraid of the dark and terrified of cats; she was also sure she was the one who had killed her mother and father and was the cause of her sister's misery. In this state of affairs, in a thrilling finale Soheir attempted to murder Nadia, fought off Nadia's rescuers in a gunfight, then paid the price for her crimes. Nadia got married to the man who loved her.

Cast and Crew: Raqiya Ebrahim, Mohammed Karim, Anwar Wagdi, Imad Hamdi, Suleiman Naguib, Abdel Waress Assar, Ferdoos Mohammed, Marcel, Abdelhalim Nasr, Anwar Mohammad, Mohammad Shorubi, Ruhia Gamal, Ahmed Talaat, Farouq Nasir, Hussein Assar, Ahmed Said

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Lady Feyrouz فيروز هانم (Fayrouz) - (1951) Egyptian one-sheet

Lady Fayrouz (1951) - (Fayrouz) Egyptian one-sheet

This a picture of a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour and Ahmed Fouad to promote the 1951 Abbas Kamel 120-minute black-and-white film Lady Feyrouz [firuz hanem] starring Fayrouz based on story and screenplay by Abbas Kamel with cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. The poster was printed by Dar al-Tabaa printers and distributed by Anwar Wagdi and Company. Plot summary: The little girl Feyrouz received a large inheritance from her father. She was friends with a poor boy and a guardian managed her property. The guardian made a deal with his secretary to steal the little girl's money and accuse the little boy of the theft. Feyrouz did not like the accusation against the boy and she realized the guardian had a mistress helping him. She confronted her and demanded the truth about what the guardian had done. When she learned the guardian had been planning to take her money she had him arrested. She realized her money was making the people around her greedy so she donated it for the construction of a home for orphans and the disabled.

Cast and crew: Abbas Kamel, Taheya Cariocca, Hassan Fayek, Anwar Wagdi, Fayrouz, Stephan Rosti, Ferdoos Mohammed, Mohammed Al-Bakkar, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Mahmoud Nasr, Lola Abdou, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Hassan Attalah, Abdel Moneim Ismail

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I Killed My Wife قتلت زوجتي (Madiha Yousri) - (1956) Egyptian one-sheet

I Killed My Wife (1956) - (Madiha Youssri) Egyptian one-sheet

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

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Hababa (1944) - (Aziza Amir)

Hababa (1954) - (Aziza Amir) Egyptian film poster

This is a first printing of a 45" x 34.5" Egyptian poster designed by Ahmed Fouad and printed by Raghaeb Printers to promote the 1944 110-minute black-and-white Niazi Mostafa film Hababa starring Aziza Amir based on a screenplay by Niazi Mostafa with story and dialogue by Ahmed Fathy and cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. The film was produced and distributed by Studio Masr. Plot summary: Prince Zayed fell in love with his neighbor Hababa who sang like an angel, but there were jealous neighbors who wanted to separate them and they succeeding in banishing Hababa from the palace. Prince Zayed became caliph and increased his power. He discovered he could not live without Hababa and went looking for her. He finally found her and the lovers were reunited, but his love for Hababa created social and political problems for him. Hababa realized this and decided to get out of his life. She committed suicide with poison and the prince lived in sorrow for his lost love for the rest of his life.

Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Mostafa Hassan, Aziza Amir, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Seram Munir, Amina Sherif, Ferdoos Hassan, Yahya Chahine, Ferdoos Mohammed, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Zuzu Shakeeb

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Hassan and Hassan (1944) - (Mohammed Al Kahlawi)

Hassan and Hassan (1944) - (Mohammad Al Kahlawi) Egyptian poster

This is a 21.5" x 34" first printing of an Egyptian poster designed by Marcel and printed by L'Art Graphique to promote the 1944 Niazi Mostafa 105-minute black-and-white film Hassan and Hassan [hassan wa hassan] starring Mohammed Al Kahlawi based on a screenplay by Niazi Mostafa with story and dialogue by Abu Seoud El Ibiary and cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. The film was produced and distributed by Nahas Film. Plot summary: One Hassan drove a taxi and the other was a hustler. The hustler married the cousin of the brother of the taxi driver so he could drain his assets with the delusion of the existence of a profitable company. On the train the two of them met Houria, a girl from a conservative family and they both loved her, but she had a maid who was going to marry Hassan the hustler. Houria's family was angry because her daughter was marrying a driver and they beat him. The hustler tricked Houria's father and almost went to prison but Hassan the driver intervened to save him, and he persuaded the family to accept him.

Cast and crew: Mohammed Al Kalhawi, Houriyya Mohamed, Bechara Wakim, Niazi Mostafa, Mostafa Hassan, Leila Helmy, Ferdoos Mohammed, Mahmoud Ismail, Choukoukou, Hager Hamdi, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Abdul Hamid Zaki, Latif Amin, Al-Sayed Abu Bakr, Zaki Ibrahim

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The Runaway الهاربة (Shadia) - (1958) Egyptian one-sheet

The Runaway (1958) - (Shadia) Egyptian one-sheet

This film is based on the 1929 Jean Giono novel Un de Baumugnes, and the 1934 film Angele based on the same novel directed by Marcel Pagnol and starring Orane Demazis as Angele Barbaroux. It was directed by Hassan Ramzi with screenplay by Hassan Ramzi and Naguib Mahfouz, cinematography by Victor Antoun.

Plot Summary: Zeinab believed it was her right to choose her husband but her father the mayor arranged a marriage to her cousin against her wishes. Zeinab ran away and her cousin decided he would kill her if he found her. Zeinab went to Cairo where she met a young physician who gave her shelter. They fell in love and agreed to marry in three years after he returned from an assignment in Europe. However he came home drunk one night and raped her. In the morning he was unable to explain to her his decision to marry her. He left and she thought he had fled after deceiving her. She left the house and went to live with one of the doctor's friends, who treated her as a sister. They joined a singing group that toured the Arab nations. When the physician returned he tried to find Zeinab so he could marry her but no one could say where she was. She was living with the physician's friend outside Cairo where she had her baby and was raising the child. She learned from the newspapers that he had become a representative for the hospital in her town. She decided to return to Cairo to ask him to acknowledge his son. When she met him he was confused to learn he had a son. He emphasized he would acknowledge him but he asked her to give him time. She believed he was fleeing from her. Suddenly her family summoned him to help her dying father. She went with him and asked his forgiveness. The father died and the cousin decided to kill her, but he changed his mind in the end because of her sister's pleading, and she finally returned to her town. The physician's friend mediated between Zeinab and the physician and harmony was restored between them.

Cast and crew: Hassan Ramzi, Shadia, Shukry Sarhan, Zaki Rostom, Kariman, Ferdoos Mohammed, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Victor Antoun, Abdel Alim Khattab, Naguib Mahfouz, Mohamed Sabih, Jean Giono, Marcel Pagnol, Orane Demazis, Angele Barbaroux

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Merchants of Death تجار الموت (Farid Shawqi) - (1958) Egyptian one-sheet

Merchants of Death (1959) - (Farid Shawqi) Egyptian one-sheet

This is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Abdel Rahman for the 1958 Kamal El Sheikh film Merchants of Death [toggar al-mawt] with screenplay and dialogue by Aly Al-Zerkany and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Dr. Abbas [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] was stripped of all humanity. He would commit insurance fraud with victims, get rid of them and then share the payments with the beneficiaries. He had agents who hunted for victims and then got rid of them for him. Morad [Farid Shawqi] happened to be doing the same kind of work Abbas was doing. Circumstances had forced him to embezzle 300 pounds from some funds entrusted to him, and he spent it all on his mother's illness. Then he tried to recover what he had lost at the gambling table, but ended up losing twice the amount he owed. He threatened Abbas with a pistol to try to get enough to cover the amount he had embezzled, but Abbas turned the tables on him and did not give him anything. They then agreed Morad would marry and insure his wife's life for 20000 pounds. Then they would dispose of the wife and divide the the money. Abbas tempted Morad with a lot of money that would be enough to pay his debt, and he gave him the dowry and enough money to pay for the marriage. Morad accepted the deal and married the daughter of a colleague who had died. She was a naive girl named Layla, [Imane] and they had a lovely month together. Then came the time for her to die as agreed, but Morad felt he was too weak to kill his wife. Instead of helping Morad get rid of Layla, Abbas went to the police and asked them to save her. The effort to save the wife succeeded and the gang and its members fell into the hands of the police.

Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Kamal El Sheikh, Rushdy Abaza, Imane, Aly Al-Zarkany, Abdelhalim Nasr, Said Abu Bakr, Ferdoos Mohammed, Aziza Helmy, Mohammed Abaza, Ahmed Louxor, Sahar Attia, Abdel Qader Al-Masiri, Nazim Shaarawy, Hussein Assar, Kamal al-Zeiny, Naguib Ghatas

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