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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Drug Users [المساطيل] - (Laila Eloui) - (1990)

Drug Users [المساطيل] (1990) - (Leila Eloui) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1990 108-minute Hussein Kamal color film Drug Users [al-masatil المساطيل] starring Laila Eloui based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Wahid Hamid with cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: A group of lost youth were involved in drug abuse and crime and they had committed a murder. Nadia [Lalia Eloui] was the most prominent among them. She was in love with Samir but he refused to marry her because she was too poor. She had to go away to marry a rich man, but it only lasted three months, and when she returned she found her father had lost his job, and she had also lost hers. She took up prostitution and began associating with a bad group of people who would use drugs together to forget the miserable realities of their lives. Among these people was the sexually impotent Ahmad, who believed drugs might cure him. Another was Talaat, a corrupt court worker who illegitimately sold judicial documents. There was also an unemployed man named Abbas who had married a wealthy cafe owner and then killed her to get her money. Samir was unable to find happiness with his wife, whom he did not love, so he broke into the gathering of drug users to be with Nadia, whom he did love, but he refused to tell them his story. They forced him to take an overdose of heroin, which killed him; then they they threw his body into the Nile. Nadia confessed to the police she had been with the drug users and had been responsible for Samir's death.

Cast and crew: Hussein Kamal, Negah El-Mogui, Hassan Hosny, Ahmed Maher, Soad Hussein, Mahmoud Hemida, Laila Eloui, Ibrahim Saleh, Wahid Hamid, Hendia, Soad Hussein

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