This is an 11.5" x 15.5" production still from the 1954 film The
Barber of Baghdad written and directed by Husein Fawzi and
starring Ismail Yasseen. Plot summary: A barber in Baghdad used to
tell his customers about about his great grandfather, a barber during
the Abbassid period, who tried to help his disabled son by buying him
a wife.
Cast and crew: Hussein Fawzi, Badei Khayri, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi,
Ismail Yasseen, Karem Mahmoud, Souraya Helmy, Sultana, El Seyed
Bedeir, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Riad al-Kasabgi, Hassan el Baroudi,
Mounir Al-Fangari, Omar Afifi, Abbas El Daly
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
Delight of My Eyes
(1954) - (Naima Akef) two Egyptian two-sheet posters
Shown here are a pair of two-piece promotional posters for the 1956
Hussein Fawzi 120-minute black-and-white film Delight of My Eyes starring
Naima Akef based on a story by Zoheir Bakir, with screenplay and dialogue by
Zoheir Bakir and Hussein Fawzi and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel
Azim. Plot Summary: The show dancer Nour Ol-Oyoun worked at the
Al-Kawakeb theater managed by Hanafi, who at the same time was the
boss of a counterfeiting gang. Hanafi fell in love with Nour Ol-Oyoun,
spent lavishly on her and offered her marriage, but the girl loved her
neighbor the musician Adel who sang with her in the same group, and
they were a successful performing pair. Hanafi was extremely jealous
and tried to dispense with Adel so he could marry Nour Ol-Oyoun. He
devised a plan in which Adel was accused of murdering one of the
musicians and was arrested. However Nour Ol-Oyoun extracted a
confession of the crime from Hanafi after making him believe she loved
him and then Hanafi was arrested. Adel was released from prison and
married Nour Ol-Oyoun.
