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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Leila Daughter of the Poor ليلى بنت الفقراء (Laila Mourad) - (1945) Egyptian rerelease poster

Leila Daughter of the Poor (1945) - (Laila Mourad) Egyptian rerelease one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1945 103-minute Anwar Wagdi black-and-white musical Leila Daughter of the Poor [leila bint al-foqara] starring Laila Mourad as Leila based on a story by Anwar Wagdi with screenplay by Kamal Salim and dialogue by Badei Khayri. Cinematography was by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Leila was a poor girl living in the Seyyeda Zeinab district of Cairo. A lady invited her to her mansion and introduced her to Officer Wahid Mokhtar [Anwar Wagdi]. Leila was impressed by the mansion and its ceremonies and soon became outgoing and cheerful. Wahid was drawn to Leila and asked her alleged father Darwish Basha [Bechara Wakim] for her hand in marriage. Then he learned Darwish Basha was not really her father. Wahid thought Leila had deceived him; he went to see her in Seyyeda Zeinab and cancelled the marriage offer. After that Wahid, who still loved Leila, met Darwish Basha and told him what had happened. Darwish Basha advised Wahid to apologize to Leila, which he did. Darwish Basha then pledged he would leave his wealth to Leila and asked Wahid's father to arrange for Wahid to marry her. The reason the Basha had left his wealth to Leila became clear to all those who had been invited to the wedding when her origins became known. Leila left the wedding in despair, but Wahid persuaded his father to move the wedding party to Seyyeda Zeinab, where the proceedings were completed.

Cast and crew: Laila Mourad, Anwar Wagdi, Suleiman Naguib, Bechara Wakim, Marie Munib, Mohammed Al-Bakkar, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Mokhtar Osman, Adel Adham, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Alim Khattab, Shafik Noureddin, Badie Khayri, Fouad Shafik, Mohamed Al-Bakar

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Farewell to Love وداعا يا حب (Mariam Fakhr Eddine) - (1960) Egyptian rerelease one-sheet

Farewell to Love (1960) - (Mariam Fakhr Eddine) Egyptian rerelease one-sheet

Pictured is an undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist for the 1960 Houssam El-din Mustafa 90-minute color film Farewell to Love [wedaan ya hob] with story, screenplay and dialogue by Fathy Abol-Fadl and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Sharif [Muharram Fouad] was a young musician who did not complete his university studies. One day he found a gold chain in front of the Opera belonging to Amani [Mariam Fakhr Eddine]. He went to return it to her after reading a report about the loss of the chain. He met Amani on a farm and refused the reward. She asked him to manage the farm, which improved Ramzy's [Khalil Badreddine] straitened circumstances at a time when he was wanting to seize Amani's money. Things improved on the farm and it produced a return, but Ramzi, who was trying to manage Sharif, became more angry. He told Amani that a woman had come to him on the farm. Amani's cousin Samir came and told her he would love to marry her in accordance with her father's command. Feelings of love developed between Sharif and Amani and she asked her uncle to help Sharif sing at the Opera. She gave him some money and Sharif made a successful appearance while Ramzi became more angry; he followed Sharif when he returned to the village after the ceremony and shot him. The people were able to catch the killer but they were not able to save the life of the musician.

Cast and crew: Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Amal Farid, Nagwa Fouad, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Hassan el Baroudi, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Muharram Fouad, Wedad Hamdy, Samir Shadid, Ezzat Wahid, Nawal Attiya, Fathy Abol-Fadl, Mohamed Abdel Azim

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Forbidden Women نساء محرمات (Hoda Soltan) - (1959) Egyptian one-sheet

Forbidden Women (1959) - (Hoda Soltan) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1959 Mahmoud Zulfikar musical Forbidden Women written by Amin Yousseff Ghurab and starring Hoda Soltan as Mahasen. Plot summary: The contractor Tareq [Hussein Riad] was unable to have any children by his wife Hafiza [Amina Rizk] so he adopted Ahmed, [Salah Zulfikar] who later managed his work for him and formed a relationship with a woman named Mahasen. Ahmed formed an illicit relationship with her without knowing she was married to Tewfiq. Mahasen had a daughter named laila [Amal Farid]; Ahmed became interested in her without realizing she was his own daughter.

Cast and crew: Hoda Soltan, Salah Zulfikar, Amina Rizk, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Hussein Riad, Amin Yousseff Ghurab, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Amal Farid, Wedad Hamdy, Mohammad Shawqi, Fifi Said, Mohsen Hassanein, Hussein Assar, Hussein Ismail

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Friday Evening [ليلة الجمعة leylet al-gom'a] (1945) - (Taheya Cariocca) Egyptian film poster

Friday Evening (1945) - (Taheya Cariocca) Egyptian one-sheet poster

This is an original 35" x 23.5" Egyptian poster for the 1945 Kamal Selim film Friday Evening [leylet al-gom'a] based on story and screenplay by Kamal Selim, dialogue by Badi Khairi and starring Taheya Cariocca as herself. Plot summary: This is a musical farce in which a wealthy uncle wants his nephew to marry so he will get his inheritance, but the nephew is already married.

Cast and crew: Taheya Cariocca, Badi Kheiri, Anwar Wagdi, Kamal Selim, Amira Amir, Bechara Wakim, Marie Munib, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Souraya Helmy, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Ismail Yasseen, Ibrahim Hamuda, Mohammad Abdel Matlab, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Ahmed El Haddad

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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.

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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The Police Inspector [مفتش المباحث] (Youssef Wahby) - (1960)

The Police Inspector [mofatesh al-mobahes] (Youssef Wahby) - (1960) oversize Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a 34" x 47" Egyptian poster designed by Fawzi to promote the 1960 84-minute Hussein Fawzi black-and-white film The Police Inspector [mofatesh al-mobahes] starring Youssef Wahby based on a story by Hussein Fawzi with dialogue by El-Sayed Ziada and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: The husband [Abdel Hafiz al-Tatawy] of a pretty dancer named Hoda [Sharifa Fadel] catches her with her lover Hossam and pulls out a gun to shoot her. In her defense Hossam [Rushdy Abaza] turns the gun back against the husband and shoots him. Hossam flees and as he is about to board a train he sees a police inspector [Youssef Wahby] at the station, who then sits opposite him in the passenger car. Hossam moves to another car but the officer follows him and falls asleep with him in a private cabin; Hossam leaves the train and gets on a bus, but the officer again runs to catch the bus and sits opposite him. At this point Hossam is convinced the officer is pursuing him and confesses to the shooting. He is surprised when he learns the inspector knows nothing about his crime; the inspector has just been on his way to attend his sister's wedding. The inspector decides to cancel the vacation to turn the criminal in. On the way to the police station during another escape attempt it becomes clear to the officer that Hossam has fled his father's home and that he has seduced a girl who has had his baby. The inspector has emotional conflicts and wants to correct what is between Hossam and Hoda. He brings them together and discovers the man Hossam shot did not die. Hossam is released and goes back to Hoda.

Cast and crew: Hussein Fawzi, Rushdy Abaza, Sharifa Fadel, Nagwa Fouad, Zeinab Sedky, Youssef Wahby, Mohamed Abdel Azim, El-Sayed Ziada, Abdel Hafiz al-Tatawy, Zakaria Soleyman, Nour Mohamed, Ahmed Said, Anwar Mohamed

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Rabha رابحه (Kouka) - (1945) Egyptian one-sheet

Rabha (1945) - (Kouka) Egyptian one-sheet

This is is a 27" x 39" stone lithograph poster designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1945 102-minute Niazi Mostafa black-and-white film Rabha starring Kouka based on a story by Mahmoud Taymoor with screenplay by Niazi Mostafa, dialogue by Bayram El Tounsi and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Rabha, a pretty girl from a Bedouin tribe, came to the aid of a boy from the city who was injured when he fell off his galloping horse on a hunting trip, and the two of them fell in love. Her tribe had made arrangements for her to marry her cousin, but on the night she was supposed to do that she eloped with the city boy. Rabha could not enjoy her married life because she was afraid of her tribe and knew they would not forgive her for eloping. However when the tribe learned the city boy was also of Bedouin extraction they forgot about what had happened and celebrated the marriage.

Cast and crew: Kouka, Niazi Mostafa, Badr Lama, Seraj Munir, Abbas Fares, Bechara Wakim, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Negma Ibrahim, Mohammed Al Kahlawi, Ahmed Abdelhalim, Zuzu Shakeeb, Soraya Fakhry, Bayram El Tounsi, Mahmoud Taymoor, Tawfiq al-Mardanli, Fouad al-Rahidi, Amal Hussein, Mohamed Kamela

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My Country and My Love وطني وحبي (Hussein Sedki) - (1960) Egyptian one-sheet

My Country and My Love (1960) - (Hussein Sedki) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman to promote the 1960 119-minute Hussein Sedki black-and-white film My Country and My Love [watani wa hobi] starring Hussein Sedki based on a story by Fouad al-Qasas and Hussein Sedki with dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa Sami and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Hussein Sedki has the part of an army officer named Wahid on a secret mission to Damascus tracking a gang that is plotting against his country. In his travels Wahid meets and falls in love with a journalist named Hala [Hala Shawkat] and eventually captures and destroys the gang.

Cast and crew: Hussein Sedki, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Fouad Al-Qasas, Mohamed Mostafa Sami, Omar El-Hariri, Hassan el Baroudi, Salah Mansour, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Hala Shawkat, Samia Rushdy, Hassan Ismail, Ali Rushdy, Nazim She'rawy, Abbas Rahmy, Zaki Ibrahim

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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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Struggle for Life معركة الحياة Hussein Sedki (1951)

Struggle for Life (1951) - (Hussein Sedki) Egyptian oversize film poster

Pictured is a 46.75" x 34.75" Egyptian poster by an unknown artist for the 100-minute black-and-white Hussein Sedki film Struggle for Life starring Hussein Sedki based on a screenplay by Hussein Sedki with cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim with dialogue by Abdel Moniem Shaker. Plot summary: Ahmed worked successfully at a law firm. His brother Fadel worked in a factory. The two of them were different on religious matters because Ahmed was a firm religious believer while Fadel was a materialist. He married Samia, the daughter of the owner of the factory where he worked, because he was hoping to get some of her father's money. When he got one of his fellow workers fired, his brother Ahmed agreed to defend the worker in court, but Fadel plotted to have the worker kidnapped to prevent him appearing in court to defend himself. Ahmed married a woman named Fathia and had a child, while Fadel and Samia lived a life of luxury and partying. Then Fadel became ill and died and Ahmed became trustee of his family affairs. Samia objected to this, but finally went insane in a mental hospital.

Cast and crew: Hussein Sedki, Abdel Moniem Shaker, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Samiha Tewfik, Hassan Fayek, Stafan Rosti, Stefan Rosti, Nazok, Zaki Ibrahim, Souraya Fakhry, Mohammad al-Dib, Kitty, Mohamed Abdel Azim

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Hoda هدى Nour Al Hoda 1949 Egyptian one-sheet

Hoda (1949) - (Nour Al Hoda) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 23.5" x 35.5" Egyptian stone litho poster designed by Andrea to promote the 1949 100-minute Helmy Rafla black-and-white film Hoda starring Nour Al Hoda based on a story by Alexandra Nicola Badran (Nour Al Hoda) with screenplay by Helmy Rafla, dialogue by Badei Khayri and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot Summary: A secretary worked with an important businessman. She set out to win his heart, he was overwhelmed, fell in love with her and finally married her to get her into his life. She found his daughter the student Hoda antagonistic towards her. His daughter rejected this wife who was not the right age nor in the right social position for him. Disputes erupted betwen the young wife and the daughter. The father could not avoid helping the wife and this caused another dispute between his wife and daughter. Because of this the daughter left her father's home. She decided to go her own way to pursue her artistic gifts, and she succeeded. On the other hand the wife began to devour her husband's assets, bringing him into bankruptcy. She left him and became estranged from him. He found himself alone until his daughter returned to him to reveal the secret of the plot his wife had devised with her lover to steal his money. He divorced her for revenge and returned to his daughter, regretting his bitter experiences after learning much from them.

Cast and crew: Nour Al Hoda, Helmy Rafla, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Hassan Fayek, Farid Shawqi, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Alexandra Nicola Badran, Badei Khayri, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Charanfantah, Zeinat Sedki, Afaf Shaker, Soad Ahmed, Rafia Al-Shal

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Forbidden Love ممنوع الحب (Mohamed Abdel Wahab) - (1942) Egyptian rerelease one-sheet

Forbidden Love (1942) - (Mohamed Abdel Wahab) undated Egyptian rerelease one-sheet

This undated rerelease poster by an unknown designer advertises a 120-minute black-and-white film by groundbreaking director Mohammed Karim based on the William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet adapted by Abbas Alam with screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Karim, cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim and musical score and lyrics by Mohamed Abdel Wahab. Plot Summary: Engineer Aziz [Mohamed Abdel Wahab] had to go to his home town after receiving a telegram about his father's death. On the train he met Fekria [Ragaa Abdou] and they were attracted to each other. It became clear the she was going to the same town but after his arrival he found that the telegram was just a trick his father had played to force him to go back to his home town to help him in the election campaign against his arch rival. Aziz also found that Fakria was the daughter of his father's rival and that he was actually her enemy. Aziz tried to get close to Fakria and talk her into making peace between the two families by marrying him. Fakria convinced her father that she would marry Aziz to get revenge against him and his father, and Aziz did the same thing. Both sets of parents tried to torment each other through their children, but Aziz and Fakria married and were deeply in love. The families visited the couple and pretended in front of them to go along with the previous agreement. The parents soon discovered that the couple had betrayed them and were happily in love. Aziz took the opportunity to convince the parents to make peace and come to terms. He succeeded in this, especially after one family's son married the daughter of another family; there were grandchildren at the end of the film.

Cast and crew: Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Negat Ali, Mohammed Karim, Ragaa Abdou, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Abdel Waress Assar, Samia Gamal, Hassan Kamel, William Shakespeare, Abbas Alam, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Madiha Yousri, Leila Fawzi, Souraya Fakhry, Aziza Badr, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Zeinat Sedki, Amin Wahba

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Delight of My Eyes نور عيوني (Naima Akef) - (1954) two two-piece Egyptian posters

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.

Cast and crew: Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mona Fouad, Zeinat Sedki, Hassan Fayek, Karem Mahmoud, Naima Akef, Hussein Fawzi, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Zoheir Bakir, Mohamed Shawky, Mounir Al-Fangari, Mousen Hassanein, Mohamed Sabih, Adib Al-Tarabosli, Ezzat al-Gaheli, Abbas al-Dali, Soheir Abdou, Fifi Saeed, Abdel Moneim Bassioni

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