This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist for
an undated rerelease of the 1963 Niazi Mostafa film I Am the
Fugitive [ana al-hareb] written by Abdel Hay Adib and starring
Farid Shawqi as Hamdi. Plot summary: Hamdi was working as a
corrections officer in a prison. He had a child afflicted with
cerebral palsy in need of expensive treatment. When Hamdi was
transporting four narcotics smugglers one of them tried to escape and
Hamdi killed him. The dead man's family learned about Hamdi's
need for money and tried to bribe him to get revenge.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Niazi Mostafa, Abdel Hay Adib, Zahrat
El-Ola, Salah Mansour, Mahmoud Moursy, Mohamed Hamdi, Masud Isa, Abdel
Khalek Saleh, Youssef Chaban, Nimat Mukhtar
This is a 33" x 45" Egyptian oversize stone litho poster for the 1954
film Money and Children [المال والبنون al-mal wal-banun] directed by Ibrahim Emara,
starring Aqila Ratib and Mohsen Sarhan. The film tells the story of
two married friends and their children, where the desire for children
and the ability to have them are restrained by financial
considerations. One of the men takes a second wife to make the
addition of children easier. The poster art is a joint project by
Studio Adly and Ahmed Fouad; printing by Dar al-Taba'a of Cairo.
Cast and crew: Ibrahim Emara, Aqila Ratib, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mohsen Sarhan, Zahrat El-Ola, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Wedad Hamdy, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Bassioni, Masud Isa
This is a 33" x 44" oversize Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly
to promote the 1955 Helmy Rafla film Revolt in the City
[thawret al-medina] starring Mohammad Fawzi and Sabah based on
screenplay and dialogue by Nairuz Abdel Malek with cinematography by
Masud Isa. Plot summary: This is a musical melodrama showcasing the
singing talents of Sabah and Mohammad Fawzi. Fatima's [Sabah] mother
died giving birth to her and her father [Hussein Riad] believed women
died immediately after giving birth. Fatima was raised believing this
too, so she avoided marriage and the idea of having children. However
she still fell in love with Ahmad [Mohammad Fawzi], a boy from a rich
family, and he asked her to marry him. Then her father was killed in
a factory accident and combined impact of mourning her father and her
psychological anti-marriage complex caused her to spend a lot of time
resisting before she finally accepted Ahmad's proposal. After
marriage, Fatima had children and was expecting to die, but she did
not die. This resolved her fear of dying because of childbirth and
she went on with her life in "happily ever after" mode. The "revolt"
theme in the title and on the poster is about an incident in the film
where the family home was destroyed in a riot while Fatima was still a
child, and has nothing at all to do with the main story. The image on the poster of Mohammad Fawzi carrying Sabah as an adult is from a different part of the film that is unrelated to the riot.
Cast and crew: Sabah, Mohammad Fawzi, Hussein Riad, Helmy Rafla, Ahmed Allam, Wedad Hamdy, Masud Isa, Shafik Noureddin, Hussein Ismail, Nairuz Abdel Malek, Qadria Qadri, Mohamed Kamel, Mohamed Sabih, Suleiman al-Guindy, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Ragaa Youssef, Qadria Kamel, Doha Nagdi
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly and Abdel
Rahman to promote the 1964 81-minute Nour El-Demerdash black-and-white
film The Price of Freedom starring Mahmoud Moursy adapted for
cinema by Naguib Mahfouz from the 1948 play Montserrat by
Emmanuel Robles based on an Arabic translation done in Lebanon by
Sohail Idris. The screenplay was done by Lutfy El-Kholy and Tulba
Radwan and cinematography was by Masud Isa. The components of the
story are taken directly from the original play with changes of name
and locale to suit the Egyptian environment. Plot summary: During the
British occupation of Egypt (1882-1956) there was a secret
organization led by a young fighter named Ahmed Abdel Hafiz. The
organization was opposed to the occupying forces. The British
governor ordered an Egyptian officer to find the chief of the
organization quickly. If this could not be done it would be necessary
to arrest the first six people to pass on the street in front of the
office and kill them by firing squad. The officer was not able to
find the fighter so six people were arrested, including a cart driver,
a merchant who had left a dinner party for his wedding, a student
whose brother had died as a martyr during his resistance to the
occupation, a mother who was returning to her small children who had
no one but her and were waiting for her return at the time, and a
pretty girl who was singing a Sayed Darwish patriotic tune. The
randomly arrested bystanders were left alone with the Egyptian officer
and told they had one hour to persuade him to divulge the location of
Ahmed Abdel Hafiz. When this did not produce the desired results, the
British officer prepared to shoot the innocents, but before doing that
he shot and killed the Egyptian officer. The multiple venues where
this play has appeared in film and on stage were traced by Nehad
Selaiha for Al-Ahram Weekly on 20 February 2013.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Nour El-Demerdash, Masud Isa, Mahmoud Moursy, Abdallah Gheith, Karima Mokhtar, Salah Mansour, Ahmed Al-Gezeiry, Nahed Samir, Ahmed Abaza, Hamed Morsi, Masud Isa, Faiza Fouad, Kamal Yasseen, Mohammed Tawfik, Hamed Moursy, Mahmoud al-Hadini, Sabri Abdel Aziz, Mohammed Abaza, Sayed al-Rais, Gamil Ezzedine, Mohamed Yahya Soleyman, Emmanuel Robles, Lutfy El-Kholy, Tulba Radwan, Sohail Idris, Ahmed al-Hamaqi
This is an Egyptian promotional poster for the 1963 85-minute Houssam
El-Din Mustafa black-and-white film The Complaints of Girls
starring Soad Hosny as Amani based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Adly
El-Mowalid and with cinematography by Masud Isa. Plot summary: The
story is set in the time before the 1952 23 July revolution. When the
sons of Sheikh Salem, [Hussein Assar] who supervised Mahmoud Bey's
[Adly Kasseb] farm, graduated from high school he decided to enroll
them at Cairo University. Sheikh Salem went to Mahmoud Bey for help
but he was against the idea of educating the children of farmers so
Sheikh Salem's wife [Fatheya Ali] decided to sell her gold so she
could send their boys Ibrahim and Ali to the university. Mahmoud Bey
was angry and demanded that Sheikh Salem send his daughter Amani to
work for him as a maid at his mansion. Despite the entreaties and
tears of her parents Amani [Soad Hosny] had to go there and work as a
maid, even though she had played with Mahmoud Bey's son Hossam [Ahmed
Ramzi] since she was a child and they had fallen in love forever.
However now she was a maid and because of that his father chose Shen
Shen [Nawal Abul Foutouh] for him, the daughter of Prime Minister Al-Izmerli Pasha.
Because of that marriage Mahmoud Bey was able to obtain money, an
endowment and more wealth. Amani was angry about her childhood friend
Hossam's proposal to Shen Shen, and she insulted her when she was
walking with Hossam. Mahmoud Bey struck her with a whip, whereupon she
ran away and got on a train to Cairo to look for her brothers. Her
brothers Ibrahim and Ali had opened a sandwich stand inside the
university to manage their expenses and their classmates were helping
them. Amani came to support them. She worked with them and quickly
became acquainted with their friends. She became so stylish that her
brothers Ibrahim and Ali almost did not know her. For this reason
Hossam, her childhood friend and a student at the same university, did
not recognize her. Hossam loved Amani's new look and wanted to tell
her he was in love with her, but one day she came to him in peasant
clothes and told him who she was. Although he initially rebelled, in
the end he asked her brother Ibrahim for her hand and love won the day
despite the opposition from Sheikh Salem and Mahmoud Bey.
Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Soad Hosny, Ahmed Ramzy, Youssef Fakhreddine, Adly El-Mowalid, Masud Isa, Hassan Fayek, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Nawal Abul Foutouh, Adly Kasseb, Hussein Assar, Samira Mohsen, Mokhtar Amin, Nadia Al-Naqrashi, Nagy Esmail, Karima Al-Sharif, Qadria Kamel, Fatheya Ali
