This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1963 Ahmed Diaeddin film Without an Appointment based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Yousef Eisa and starring Soad Hosny as
Salwa. Plot summary: Salwa was in love with Wahid [Mohamed Soltan]
but no one knew, and he did not reciprocrate her feelings because he
loved Nadia [Nadia Lutfi]. At the same time Kamal [Moharram Fouad] was
also in love with Nadia and nobody knew about that either. He did not
know his friend Wahid also loved Nadia. When Kamal found out about
this he decided to get out of the way.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Diaeddin, Soad Hosny, Nadia Lutfi, Muharram
Fouad, Mohamed Sultan, Fakher Fakher, Zouzou Mady, Sair Sabri, Khayria
Ahmed, Salah Jahine, Mimi Shakeeb, Victor Antoun, Yousef Eisa
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1962 Hassan El-Seify
film Wife Killers Society based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Youssef El Sebai, cinematography by Fouad Abdel Malek and
starring Salah Zulfikar as Mahmoud. Disclaimer: No wives are killed
in this farce! Plot summary: A husband named Nuh Effendi and his
wife Om Abdou [Hussein Riad and Marie Munib] were constantly arguing.
The husband noticed everyone he knew was having the same problem so he
decided to start a secret Wife Killers Society in the building where
they lived. He insisted on evicting Mahmoud [Salah Zulfikar] and
Sayed Khal Mahmoud [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] who were living on the roof,
because they were late paying their rent.
Cast and crew: Hassan El-Seify, Salah Zulfikar, Hussein Riad,
Zahret al-Ola, Marie Munib, Zeinat Sedki, Khayria Ahmed, Abdel Moneim
Ibrahim, Hassan Fayek, Fouad Abdel Malek, Said Abu Bakr, Stephan
Rosti, Youssef El Sebai
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown artist for the 1963
El-Sayed Ziada film Forgive My Mistake based on a story by Aziz
Armani, screenplay and dialogue by El-Sayed Ziada, cinematography by
Zakaria Mansour and starring Samira Ahmed as Leila. Plot summary:
Hussein Mokhtar [Kamal Al-Shennawi] did not care about marriage until
he fell in love with a poor girl named Leila. Before marrying her he
discovered she was a prostitute. This broke his heart but because of
his love for her he forgave her, even though his mother tried to get
him to end his relationship with her. According to Egyptian film
encyclopedist Mahmoud Qasem this poster is for a rerelease with scenes
deleted and a title change of the 1962 film Take Me and My
Shame [khozni bi 'ari] directed by El Sayed Ziada. In both
versions of the film Samira Ahmed's character is a prostitute.
Cast and crew: Kamal Al-Shennawi, Zuzu Madi, Hassan Hamed, Wedad
Hamdy, Khayria Ahmed, Nahed Samir, Said Khalil, Ahmed Ghanem, Samira
Ahmed, El-Sayed Ziada, Zakaria Mansour, Aziz Armani
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohamed Abdel Aziz
and Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1975 Atef Salem film Youth These
Days based on a story by Mohammad al-Hadidi, screenplay and
dialogue by Abdel Hay Adib and starring Rushdy Abaza as Hosni. Plot
summary: As editor of an important journal, Hosni did not have enough
time to stay at home and look after his wife Eqbal [Mariam Fakhr
Eddine] and children. He wrote about youth affairs and was in a
relationship with his secretary Soheir [Safia El Emari] without
realizing she was secretly married to his son Khaled [Samir Sabri].
Khaled was killed in the October War, but before that he sent his
father a letter telling him about his marriage to Soheir.
Cast and crew: Atef Salem, Rushdy Abaza, Mohamed Awad, Mohamed
Reda, Samir Sabri, Safia El Emari, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Sameer Ghanem,
Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Leila Hamada, Khayria Ahmed, Saed Zayan, Amira,
Abdel Moneim Bahnassy, Mohammad al-Hadidi, Abdel Hay Adib
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdouh Mohammad and
Fouad Aziz for the 1960 Mahmoud Zulfikar film The Blessed
Marriage based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Tewfik
El-Hakim and Youssef Gohar and starring Sabah as Samiha. Plot
summary: When Samiha's husband Rafet [Salah Zulfikar] does not pay
enough attention to her she becomes interested in other men, but she
eventually realizes her husband is the most important man in her
life.
Cast and crew: Imad Hamdi, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Salah Zulfikar, Sabah,
Hesham Wadid Serri, Tewfik El-Hakim, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Youssef
Gohar, Wadid Sirry, Khayria Ahmed, Omar Al Hariri, Salah Nazmi, Zahrat
El-Ola
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour to promote the 1987 92-minute Mustafa Al Saiid color
film Thirsty [atshana] starring Elham Shaheen based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Mohammad al-Basusi with cinematograpy by
Mohamed Khalil. Plot summary: Samia [Elham Shaneen] married her
colleague Salah [Hesham Selim] and they lived together in Salah's home
with his parents. Salah worked in an attorney's office. Samia was
harassed by her mother-in-law Hosnia [Khayria Ahmed]. Samia worked at
a company owned by Moharram [Hussein El-Sherbini], a businessman, who
wanted her, adding to the problems Samia was having because of
Hosnia's harressment. Samia turned against Salah and demanded a
divorce, which he gave her. Moharram offered to marry Samia and she
agreed. Then she discovered Moharram's poor ethics, his relations
with numerous women and his use of narcotics. Hosnia regretted the way
she had treated Samia and asked her son Salah to bring her back.
Salah met with Samia without realizing she had married Moharram; he
learned about her difficult life with her husband. Salah started a law
firm, became successful and got his own apartment. Moharram died and
Samia inherited his wealth. Her friend Ezzat advised her to go back
to Salah. She initially rejected this because she was enjoying her
freedom, but she eventually changed her mind and went back to him.
Cast and crew: Mustafa Al Saiid, Elham Shaheen, Hesham Selim, Hussein El-Sherbini, Khayria Ahmed, Abu Lamaa, Nada, Mohamed Ahmed al-Masri, Wasila Hussein, Mona Darwish, Ezzat Sherif, Fatma Eid, Neda Mostafa, Aliah Hamed, Shafiq al-Shayeb, Bassam Ragab, Youssef Eid, Rashwan Mostafa, Matawei Eweis
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
Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Khalil to
promote the 1959 100-minute Mohamed Abdel Gawad black-and-white
film A Kiss in the Night [qabbelni fil-zalam] starring Hind
Rostom based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohammed Abdel Gawad
with cinematography by Klelio. Plot summary: Aziz married an
aristocratic girl named Lola, but they soon soon had a disagreement
that ended in divorce. Lola's father Abdel Hamid lost his wallet
containing money and important papers. Hussein found it and returned
it to him intact despite his proverty, then he refused the money Abdel
Hamid offered him as a reward. Lola began courting him so she could
forget her life with Aziz and she asked him to work for her to keep
her from going back to her husband. Then she backed off, but Hussein
remained interested. Abdel Hamid saw Hussein's honesty and dedication
to his work. Lola decided to behave as if Hussein was her husband but
she had an episode of jealousy when he got close to her cousin. Over
time Lola became sure of her feelings and her love for Hussein, and
her father Abdel Hamid agreed to let her marry him.
This is a promotional poster for designed by Ahmed Hamed for the 1961 Hassan El-Seify 90-minute
black-and-white film Fattouma starring Hind Rostom with story,
screenplay and dialogue by Zaki Saleh and cinematography by Alvisy
Orphanily. Plot summary: Fattouma (Hind Rostom) told her boyfriend
Dr. Wahid Farid (Kamal Al-Shennawi) that her husband had left her a message
saying he intended to commit suicide. Wahid advised her to leave the
message beside the body so the police would not be suspicious. She
asked him to do this himself. He went to the home of the deceased and
was surprised to find him threatening him with a pistol instead of dead.
He took out his own pistol and killed the husband of his mistress. He
told the police he had known Fattouma long ago when she almost committed
suicide, but Dr. Wahid had given her hope and asked her to marry him. He
spent the night with her and the next morning he left a message with her
but the wind blew it out the window before she saw it. When she woke up she decided to
kill herself. Then she married Khorshid (Mahmoud El-Meliguy) so he would
take care of her son. Wahid went back, met her by chance and became her
lover. Fattouma's account to the police was from a different point of
view. She said when her husband knew Wahid had returned from abroad he
invented the story to blackmail him to get money for his son. She claimed
she told her lover about the killing of her husband so he could face him,
and that she had changed the pistol because of the extent of the danger to
her lover. The lovers were then accused, but the attorney was able to
prove they had not collaborated in the killing.
Cast and crew: Hind Rostom, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Ahmed Hamed, Hassan El-Seify, Zaki Saleh, Khayria Ahmed, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Orlando, Hoda Shamseddine, Alvisy Orphanily
Pictured are two promotional posters for the
110-minute 1985 Ashraf Fahmy color film Divorced Woman [emra'a
motlaqa] starring Naglaa Fathy as Salwa based on a story by Hassan
Shah with screenplay and dialogue by Mostafa Moharram and
cinematography by Mohsen Nasr. Plot summary: Zeinab [Samira Ahmed] was
a nurse married to Fathy, [Mahmoud Yassine] an ambitious bank employee
who worked his way into a big bank center then married the secretary
Salwa. He threw Zeinab out of his apartment after divorcing her
because her social standing was not high enough. Zeinab went to a
judge and got an order allowing her to stay in the apartment with
Fathy and Salwa because she was pregnant. She tried to keep the baby
so she could remain alone in the apartment after the child was born,
but she finally gave up and left. Salwa sympathized with Zeinab
because of her financial situation. Zeinab finally gave in to the
teacher Fahim [Aly El Cherif] who wanted to marry her, even though she
was not happy about it and had refused him repeatedly, because
marrying him would provide her with a secure home.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Farid Shawqi, Salah Kabil, Khayria Ahmed, Samira Ahmed, Karima Mokhtar, Aly El Cherif, Farida Seif El Nasr, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Ashraf Fahmy, Nagah El-Mogui, Naima Al-Soghayar, Mohsen Nasr, Mostafa Moharram, Hassan Shah, Fouad Khalil
