This is a 6.5" x 9.5" 14-page film program for the 1950 film My Sister Seteita> written\
and directed by Hussein Fawzi and Starring
Sabah as Hodhod. Plot summary: Hodhod was a singer who fell in love
with a famous singer named named Nabil [Saad Abdel Wahab]. To
insinuate herself into his life she impersonated his sister Seteita,
[Afaf Shaker] whom he had not seen in years.
This is an original 12" x 14.5" Egyptian lobby card for the 1946
film Love among the Elders written and directed by Mohammad
Abdel Gawad, dialogue by Youssef Gohar and starring Fatma Rouchdi as
Ahlam. Plot summary: Mokhtar [Mansi Fahmi] was a learned man and a
thinker who did not acknowledge the authority of women. He maintained
a barrier in his relations with them, but then a woman named Ahlam
conquered his heart and he changed his mind. His friend and student
Rauf [Yehia Chahine] also loved Ahlam, who was living with Mokhtar at
the time to escape the authority of her criminal father after Mokhtar
had taken her in to help her recover from an attempted suicide.
Mokhtar offered to marry her to protect her from her father, without
knowing Rauf's feelings about her and even though she did not love
him. After they had an argument Ahlam ran away with Rauf but then
went back to Mokhtar because she felt guilty. She discovered he had
gone blind and become more violent and cruel than ever. He threatened
to kill himself if she left him. Ahlam shot herself but survived;
Mokhtar then sacrificed his love for her so she could marry Rauf.
Pictured here are two original-year Egyptian posters designed by Hassan
Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1954 Ihsan Ferghal film We Live
Once [al-omr wahd] starring Ismail Yassine based on story and
dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary with cinematography by Mostafa Hassan.
Plot summary: The owner of a company lusted after his secretary and
wanted to seduce her, but the secretary loved an engineer in the
company named Nafe [Ismail Yasseen]. The secretary married him and the
director [Abdel Fatah Al Kasri] fired them. In the face of the
unemployment problems the engineer decided to go to Brazil where his
twin brother [also Ismail Yasseen] lived. He boarded an aircraft that
crashed and killed all the passengers and the wife and the brother
took the insurance money, which put them on a better social level.
However Nafe soon appeared; the two had many problems hiding him and
Nafe wore many disguises. He saw with his own eyes how men lusted
after his wife in his absence. Nafe's ruse was discovered, the police
arrested him and the company demanded the money. Nafe's brother
arrived from Brazil and paid the insurance money, ending the problems
surrounding Nafe.
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease poster designed to promote the
1969 123-minute Salah Abouseif color film Some Suffering [Shay
min al-azab] starring Soad Hosny based on a story by Ahmed Ragab with
screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz and Youssef Francis and cinematography by
Ibrahim Shamat. Plot summary: Elham [Soad Hosny] fled from her
mother's husband after he tried to rape her and she had beaten and
killed him with an umbrella in self-defense. She took refuge at a
villa in Sidi Abdel Rahman at the studio of the artist Ahmed Khaled
[Yehia Chahine]. She introduced herself to him as Salwa, claiming she
had been on a school trip and lost the way. He tried to drive her out
but she pleaded that she would stay with him one night only and he
accepted. In the morning Sherif the artist [Hassan Youssef] appeared,
who was surprised to see this girl. She claimed falsely that she was
Ahmed Khaled's niece and had been living in Khartoum. She asked him
to help her stay and not travel. Salwa had Sherif make a statue of
her so she would have to stay in the villa until it was finished.
While Sherif was making the statue he began to love her but Salwa
deeply loved Ahmed. Sherif went to his boss to ask for Salwa's hand.
Ahmed was astonished, began to be concerned about Salwa and asked her
to leave the house. Salwa felt she had failed in her love with Ahmed
and tried to commit suicide by drowning herself in the sea. Ahmed
asked Sherif to save her and admitted the truth to him. Sherif
insisted on his love for Salwa. Ahmed felt the difference in age
between himself and Salwa and could not continue with this love. He
left her a letter of apology, left the house and took refuge with his
friend the musician Hussein Shukry [Abdel Moneim Madbouly], who
believed the age difference makes no difference to an artist and that
an artist's love cannot be measured. Sherif saw Salwa's picture in
magazines. She had confessed, surrendered, gone to trial and been
found innocent on grounds of self-defense. The artist Ahmed Khaled
left her life and returned with Sherif to make a new life.
Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Naguib Mahfouz, Soad Hosny, Hassan Youssef, Yehia Chahine, Ibrahim Shamat, Ahmed Ragab, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, nmsp, Farouk Ibrahim, Youssef Francis, Mohamed al-Dib, Fathy Youssef
Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Magdi William to
promote the 1956 97-minute Fatin Abdel Wahab black-and-white
film The Secret Police [al-bolis al-serri] starring Ismail
Yasseen based on a story by Hashem Gom'ah with screenplay and dialogue
by Ali El Zorkani and cinematography by Klelio. Plot summary: Esmail
Effendi [Ismail Yasseen] was a police private who had the job of
escorting a crazy person to a hospital for the mentally ill, but the
crazy person got away from him. Ismail went to his uncle Abed [Abdel
Salam Al Nabulsy] to get his help resolving the difficulty. The uncle
decided he would take the crazy person's place at the hospital for the
mentally ill, and then try to escape from the hospital. Ismail was
then transferred to the anti-crime office where he had to work with
Sergeant Major Bakir in his search for an unknown thief. Ismail and
Bakir disguised themselves as Spaniards and infiltrated the gang.
After a series of adventures they arrested the gang and Ismail was
promoted to sergeant and received a reward, which he gave to his
fiance Waza. When the crazy person was arrested Uncle Abed succeeded
in proving that he was not crazy and got out of the hospital.
Cast and crew: Fatin Abdel Wahab, Hassan Fayek, Ismail Yasseen, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Zeinat Sedki, Tahany Rashed, Klelio, Ali El Zorkani, Hashem Gom'ah, Ahmed Louxor, Edmond Tuema, Mohamed Al-dib, Mousen Hassanein, Nazim Shaarawy, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Eskandar Monsi, Said Khalil
