The Beast الوحش Anwar Wagdi 1954 Egyptian film program

The Beast (1954) - (Anwar Wagdi) Egyptian film program

This is an original 12-page 8" x 11" Egyptian program designed by Solly for the 1954 Salah Abouseif film The Beast AKA The Monster AKA Al-Wahsh based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz and Salah Abouseif, dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir and starring Anwar Wagdi as Officer Raouf Saleh. Plot summary: Abdel Sabour [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including the police. He enjoyed the protection of Redwan Pasha, [Abbas Fares] who in turn used him during elections to eliminate his rivals. Officer Raouf Saleh was sent to the village with his wife and son with the assignment of arresting The Beast. However The Beast and his gang worked together from the beginning trying to dispose of the officer and his family in any way possible.

Cast and crew: Samia Gamal, Anwar Wagdi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Abbas Fares, Salah Abouseif, Naguib Mahfouz, Abdelhalim Nasr, Abbas Fares, Samiha Ayyoub, Mohammad Tawfik, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Nazim Shaarawy, Mahmoud Hamdy

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Wife of an Important Man زوجة رجل مهم (Ahmed Zaki) - (1987) Egyptian Film Poster

Wife of an Important Man (1987) - (Ahmed Zaki) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 26" x 38.5" Egyptian poster designed by Samir Abdel Moneim for the 1987 Mohammed Khan film Wife of an Important Man based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Raouf Tawfik and starring Ahmed Zaki as Hesham. Plot summary: The film tells the story of the rise and fall of Colonel Hesham Abol-Wafa, an Egyptian police officer during the Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat years (1962 - 1980). It received the Silver Award at the Damascus Film Festival in 1987 and was also shown in competition at the Moscow Film Festival in 1987. It was shown as well at the Montreal, Valencia, Tetouan, Digne, Istanbul and Nantes Film Festivals in 1987 and 1988.

Cast and crew: Mohamed Khan, Ahmed Zaki, Mervat Amin, Hassan Hosny, Zizi Mustafa, Nahed Samir, Mohsen Ahmed, Ali Al Ghandour, Khairy Beshara, Hafez Amin, Hassan Hosny, Abdel Halim Hafez, Nazim Shaarawy, Mohsen Ahmed, Othman Abdelmonem, Abdel Ghany Naser, Mahmoud al-Dardiri, Ahmed Moukhtar, Raouf Tawfik

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Kerim Son of the Sheik (1962) - (Gordon Scott) 2-piece Egyptian poster

Kerim Son of the Sheik (1962) - (Gordon Scott) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 35" x 46" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Mohammed Abdel Aziz for the 1962 Mario Costa film Kerim Son of the Sheik based on story and screenplay by Mario Stresa and starring Gordon Scott as Kerim. Plot summary: In the middle of the 19th Century in Egypt the evil Omar [Alberto Farnese] seeks to kill all his adversaries, marry the Khedive's neice Fawzia [Cristina Gaioni] and then overthrow and replace the Khedive. When his violence results in the death of Laila [Maria Grazia Spina] her brother Kerim becomes his mortal enemy and starts leading various desert tribes in revolt against Omar.

Cast and crew: Gordon Scott, Mario Costa, Cristina Gaioni, Moira Orfei, Alberto Farnese, Farid Shawqi, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Ahmed Louxor, Lola Sedki, Nazim Shaarawy, Mohamed Soltan

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Sonya and the Madman سونيا والمجنون (Naglaa Fathy) - (1977) Egyptian one-sheet

Sonya and the Madman (1977) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1977 Houssam El-Din Mustafa film Sonya and the Madman based on the 1866 Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel Crime and Punishment with screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Diab, cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh and starring Naglaa Fathy as Sonya. Plot summary: In 1940s Cairo, law student Mokhtar [Mahmoud Yassine] found a poor girl sleeping in the street named Sonya whose circumstances were driving her to vice and crime. He fell in love with her and asked her to stop being a girl of the night in exchange for his financial help. In this adaptation Mokhtar is the madman who has Raskalnikov's part in the Dostoyevsky story. Naglaa Fathy's Sonya is also Dostoyevsky's Sonya.

Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Imad Hamdi, Sa'eed Saleh, Abdel Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ibrahim Saleh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ruhia Khaled, Nazim Shaarawy, Naima Al Soghayar, Mahmoud Diab, Soheir Reda

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Shame on You Lulu Shame on You عيب يا لولو .. يا لولو عيب Nelly 1978 Egyptian one-sheet

(1978) - (Adel Imam) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Al-Khad and Moaty for the 1978 film Shame on You Lulu Shame on You written and directed by Said Tantawi with screenplay and dialogue by Wasfy Darwish and starring Nelly as Lulu. Plot summary: After marrying her for love, Lulu's husband put restraints on her free time even though she had done nothing wrong. In anger, Lulu left Alexandria for Cairo and made an unsuccessful attempt to find an apartment. She met a taxi driver named Salama, [Mahmoud Abdel Aziz] who realized she had no place to live and allowed her to use his spare room. She did not tell him she was married. One of Salama's friends named Kamel [Ezzat El Alaili] took a liking to Lulu. Salama noticed this and suggested that he tell her about his feelings. Salama's friend Shahab [Adel Imam] also had strong feelings for Lulu, which were not reciprocated. Everyone was looking for Lulu in Alexandria; when her husband found out she was in Cairo he and his brothers went looking for her. When he discovered she was living in a man's house he divorced her.

Cast and crew: Said Tantawi, Nelly, Ezzat El Alaili, Adel Imam, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sami Kamel, Nazim Shaarawy, Hassan Abedin, Aziza Helmy, Mohammad Shawqi, Samia Al-Alfy, Hafez Amin, Aliya Ali, Mahmoud Masoud, Mona Abdullah, Seyed Ibrahim, Nader Noureddin, Essam Farid, Hassan Abrin, Sally

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Struggle of the Professionals [صراع المحترفين] (Rushdy Abaza) - (1969)

Struggle of the Professionals [sera' al-mohtarefin] (Rushdy Abaza) (1969) Egyptian film poster

This is a picture of a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy to promote the 1969 102-minute Hassan El-Seify black-and-white film Struggle of the Professionals [sera' al-mohtarefin] starring Rushdy Abaza and Naglaa Fathy based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Fayek Ismail with cinematography by Mohamed Emara. Plot summary: Gharabawy Bey [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] is the owner of a fishing fleet in the Abu Qir district of the Governorate of Alexandria. He is actually a smuggler being sought by an officer named Wahid [Rushdy Abaza], working undercover disguised as a Dr. Fathy, who is trying to get close to the smuggler's daughter Leila [Naglaa Fathy]. There is a temporary love triangle when Garabawy Bey's wife Ashgan [Nagwa Fouad] also tries to rekindle an old romance with Officer Wahid, but after Wahid has a one-man fist fight against the entire gang and is temporarily a captive on one of their boats, the police arrest the smugglers and Leila and Wahid end up getting together.

Cast and crew: Mohamed Emara, Rushdy Abaza, Naglaa Fathy, Nagwa Fouad, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Tewfik El Dekn, Hassan El-Seify, Nazim Shaarawy, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Fayek Ismail, Mohamed Emara, Ibrahim Saafan, Kawsar Shafik, Samir Shadid, Iskandar Mansi, Seif Allah Mokhtar, Abbas Rahmy

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Sonya and the Madman [سونيا والمجنون] - (Naglaa Fathy) - (1977)

Sonya and the Madman [sunya wal-magnun] (Naglaa Fathy) (1977) Egyptian film poster

This is an Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1977 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 122-minute color film Sonya and the Madman [sonya wal-magnun], with cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh, printed by Arabic Cinema Printers. The film is based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, but the central character is switched and in this Egyptian film adaptation becomes Dostoevsky's Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov (Sonya) who in the novel falls in love with the criminal protagonist, Rodio Romanovitch Raskalnikov (Rodya); Raskalnikof (the madman) is played in this Egyptian film by Mahmoud Yassine.

Cast and crew: Nour El-Sherif, Imad Hamdi, Sa'eed Saleh, Abdel Waress Assar, Hayat Kandeel, Naglaa Fathy, Mahmoud Yassine, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Naima Al Soghayar, Nazim Shaarawy, Ruhia Khalid, Ibrahim Saleh, Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Hero until the End (1963) - (Farid Shawqi) [بطل للنهاية]

Hero until the End [بطل للنهاية batal lil-nehaya] (1963) - (Farid Shawqi) Egyptian film poster

Shown here is a 27" x 39" undated Egyptian rerelease poster designed by Magdi William to promote the 111-minute 1963 Houssam El-Din Mustafa black-and-white film Hero until the End [بطل للنهاية batal lil-nehaya] starring Farid Shawqi based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ali El Zorkani with cinematography by Klelio. Plot summary: Hafiz Amin was a big contractor and president of a charity organization for the support of children whose members had to share the expenses the organization incurred while achieving its objectives. However Hafiz Amin was actually the leader of a gang that kidnapped children from wealthy families and held them for ransom. Most of them paid with the exception of Shukry, who refused. When they threatened to kidnap his son, Shukry decided to leave Alexandria and live in Cairo, far from the gang. However Rashad, one of the gang members, followed him on a desert road and overturned the automobile in which he and his family had been riding. All the occupants were killed except the child who had been the object of the kidnapping. Hafiz Amin adopted the child for self-promotion. Then he threatened to kidnap Elham, the daughter of an engineer named Mohammad Abduh. His wife Ehsan advised him to pay the ransom, but he refused and notified the police, who got Ibrahim to join the gang to learn the truth about its leader. Ibrahim had been living a quiet life with his wife Fatima and his son Hussein since his release from prison. Hussein was blind and in need of an urgent operation. Officer Nazim promised Ibrahim enough money for his son's operation if he succeeded in helping, and he did succeed. The police finally arrested the gang and its leader.

Cast and crew: Ali El Zorkani, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Klelio, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Laila Taher, Tewfik El Dekn, Zein El-Ashmawy, Nazim Shaarawy, Mohamed El Dafrawy, Abdel Abdi al-Araby, Wagdy El-Araby, Ekram Azu, Nahed Samir, Lutfi Abdel Hamid

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The Unknown Man [الرجل المجهول] (Mahmoud El-Meliguy) - (1965)

The Unknown Man [al-ragol al-maghul] (Mahmoud El-Meliguy) - (1965) Egyptian film poster

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1965 Mohamed Abdel Gawad 88-minute black-and-white film The Unknown Man [al-ragol al-maghul] starring Mahmoud El-Meliguy based on a story by Shaaban Mansour Amer with screenplay by Kamel Abdel Salam and Mohamed Abdel Gawad, dialogue by Kamel Abdel Salam and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Safia [Zizi El-Badrawy] was an attractive country girl. Two of the young men in the village had their hearts set on her. One was Reshwan the mayor's son and the other was Hamed, [Salah Kabil] an ambitious poor man. Hamed asked Safia's father if he could court her but the father wanted an appropriate husband for his daughter. He agreed to allow his daughter to associate with the son of the mayor and promise to marry him, but Reshwan suddenly changed his mind and tried to get close to Saadia, Hamed's sister. He attacked her but to save her the thief Ahmed, [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] who happened to be in the house at that very moment, intervened to save her and killed Reshwan in a fight. He fled and Hamed was accused of the murder and sentenced to death in court. Saadia learned the story from her brother. She looked for the thief, wooed him to save her brother, then extracted a confession from him. Ahmed was released and then married Safia.

Cast and Crew: Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Zizi El-Badrawy, Salah Kabil, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Ezzat El Alaili, Hussein Ismail, Nazim Shaarawy, Mousen Hassanein

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