Streets of Fire [شوارع من نار] (Nour El-Sherif) - (R1994)

Streets of Fire [shaware men nar] (Nour El-Sherif) (R1994) Egyptian film poster

This film is based on Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce with a story that begins in 1942 beside the Suez Canal in the city of Ismailia Egypt. The poster measures 25.5" x 37" and was designed for a 1994 rerelease of Samir Seif's 1984 108-minute color film Streets of Fire starring Nour El-Sherif based on screenplay and dialogue by Ibrahim al-Mawgi and Ahmed Saleh with cinematography by Essam Farid. Plot summary: A policeman named Imam [Nour El-Sherif] was transferred from Ismailia to Cairo to work in a red light district. He fell in love with a whore named Nousa [Madiha Kamel] who worked with a local thug named Galal [Sayed Zayan], but Imam did not know Nousa was a whore. In an incident defending Nousa, Imam beat up a British soldier and then lost his job. He returned to the neighborhood looking for work, became a pimp and got into a fight with Galal. Imam won the fight, became the district's dominant tough guy and married Nousa. Later when prostitution was outlawed, Imam took to nightclub life and then joined revolutionaries fighting the British. A year earlier the 1983 Nader Galal film Five Doors Bar [khamsa bab] had also been based on Irma La Douce, set at about the same time in Cairo's Ezbekia district.

Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Madiha Kamel, Laila Eloui, Sayed Zayan, Mohamed Reda, Samir Seif, Naima Al Soghayar, Negah El-Mogui, Atef Barakat, Zakaria Mouafi, Billy Wilder, Essam Farid, Karima El-Sherif, Hanem Mohamed, Sharifa Zaitoun, Amima Selim, Mohammad Shawky, Zakaria Mouafi, Ahmed Abu Abia, Kassim Al Daly, Fouad Khalil, Reda Al Sayed, Souraya Ezzeddine, Fouad Abdel Aziz, Youssef Fawzi, Wasila Hussein, Hosni Abdel Galil, Hayatem, Youssef Assal, Ahmed Abdel Hadi, Ahmed Farid

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Wisdom and Money [العقل والمال] (1965) - (Ismail Yasseen)

Wisdom and Money (1965) - (Ismail Yasseen) Egyptian one-sheet poster

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Marcel to promote the 1965 Abbas Kamel 109-minute color and black-and-white film Wisdom and Money [al-aql wal-mal] starring Ismail Yasseen based on a story by Ezzedin Aref with screenplay and dialogue by Abbas Kamel and cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: Fakhreddine [Ismail Yasseen] believed love was the foundation for everything and he bet his friend [Tewfik El Dekn] he could live happily with his beloved Shamsolasil, but his friend told him money was the basis for everything because with money one could buy other people and the needs of the people. When Fakhreddine saw his beloved he told her he was going to marry her and told her about the bet he had made with his friend about whether wisdom was better than money. Shams gave him a novel and asked him to read it. The story was about a man who wasted his money because he was unwise. After reading the novel Fakhreddine concluded that wisdom is attractive in life but one must also hang on to one's money.

Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Mahmoud Nasr, Abbas Kamel, Hassan Fayek, Tewfik El Dekn, Madiha Kamel, Abdel Alim Khattab, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Ibrahim Khan, Tarub, Mohammad Shawky, Kamel Anwar, Zaki Ibrahim, Anwar Mohamed, Hussein Ismail, Aly Kamel, Zeinab Alawy, Qatquta, Kitty, Kawsar al-Asal, Abdel Nabi Mohamed, Khaled Agabani, Soheir Magdi

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Palalce Walk (1967) - (Nadia Lutfi) قصر شوق Egyptian one-sheet poster

Palace Walk (1967) - (Nadia Lutfi) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian rerelease poster made by an unknown designer to promote the 1967 Hassan Al Imam film Palace Walk ['asr al-shawq] starring Nadia Lutfi based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay and dialogue by Mustafa Samy and cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. This film was Nour El-Sherif's film debut. Plot summary: After the death of Fahmy ibn al-Sayed Ahmed Abdel Gawad and the death of the father five years later, his daughters moved after they were married to the neighborhood of the Palace of Longing in the 1920s. When Zanuba was born in Zubaida's home, Sayed Abdel Gawad quit the night life. When he decided to return to Zubaida's home he disovered that yesterday's child Zanuba had grown up to become a girl who could make him fall in love with her and buy his people for her. At the same time however Zanuba loved Yassine the son of Ahmed Abdel Gawad, without knowing the truth of this. She married Yassine and came into the family of Sayed Abdel Gawad as the respected wife of his son. As for Kamal, he loved Aida but she did not marry him and left him. He then rejected everything he had believed in. After assessing his poverty she married a rich boy.

Cast and crew: Nadia Lutfi, Yehia Chahine, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Magda El-Khatib, Amal Zayed, Samir Sabri, Nour El-Sherif, Naguib Mahfouz, Hassan Al Imam, Soheir El-Barouni, Hala Fakher, Ahmed Ghanem, Mohammad Shawky, Hussein Ismail, Naima Al Soghayar, Sa'eed Saleh, Nour El-Sherif, Zizi Mustafa, Sherifa Maher, Mimi Shakeeb, Zuzu Shakeeb, Mostafa Hassan, Mustafa Samy

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