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
This is a rare original 13" x 13.5" Egyptian lobby card with key
art designed by Solly for the 1954 Salah Abouseif film The
Beast AKA The Monster AKA Al-Wahsh based on a story
by Egyptian Nobel laureate 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. The photo
shows Officer Raouf giving a cigarette to the Beast.
Cast and crew: Samia Gamal, Solly, El Sayed Bedeir, 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
This is an original year 24" x 35" Egyptian one-sheet 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: El Sayed Bedeir, Solly, 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
This is a 35" x 61" original three-piece stone litho Egyptian poster
designed by Marcel for the 1962 Salah Abouseif film Letter from an
Unknown Woman starring Farid Al Atrache as Ahmed Sameh. Plot
summary: The musician Ahmed Sameh received a letter on the evening of
his birthday. He was used to receiving flowers every birthday but this
time he was reading a letter from a woman he did not know. Her name
was Amal [Lobna Abdel Aziz] and she lived in front of him in his old
home. She loved him without him knowing about it; she seldom saw him
or had any reason to go into his home, but she knew his servant
Ibrahim. However her mother had to get married and moved to another
city. From time to time Amal looked at the home of her beloved who
did not know her. One day he stopped his car for her, took her to his
home and she became pregnant by him, but he forgot her because she was
just another girl to him. He lived the life of a musician. Amal
worked in an office. The owner of the office offered to marry her but
he knew there was another man in her life so he left her alone. Amal
met her beloved one night but he did not remember her. He avoided her
son but one day the son was hurt in a collision with a bus. The
doctor said the type of blood the injured boy needed was rare. Amal
was obliged to send her letter to Ahmed Sami, who came to the hospital
on the evening of his birthday. He gave the blood to his son and
married Amal after he realized how long she had loved him. This film
was directed by Salah Abouseif based on the 1922 novella of the same
title by Stefan Zweig, which was also the basis for a 1948 movie with
the same title starring Joan Fontaine.
Cast and crew: Farid Al Atrache, Lobna Abdel Aziz, Amina Rizk,
Marie Munib, Salah Abouseif, Ezzat El Alaili, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim,
Fakher Fakher, Hussein al-Sayed, Abdel Ghani Nagdi, Mary Ezzedine,
Nawal Abul Foutouh, Fatthy Zaky, Wafia Khayry, El Sayed Bedeir, Aly
Hassan, Stefan Zweig
This is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour for the 1991 120-minute Salah Abouseif color film War in the
Land of Egypt [al-mowaten: masri] starring Omar Sharif, based on
the novel al-harb fi bar misr by Youssef El-Kaeed with
screenplay by Mohsen Zayed and cinematography by Tarek El-Telmisany.
Plot summary: In 1973 in an Egyptian village Abdel Zeraq al-Shershabi
(Omar Sharif), a shrewd feudal mayor, recovered his farmland by court
order after the lifting of a receivership. His young second wife
threatened to tell people he had become sexually impotent if he did
not prevent their only son Tawfiq from being drafted into the army
along with his other children from his first wife. The mayor
pressured an oppressed farm laborer named Abel Mawgud to have his son
Masri, who was exempt from the draft, take the place of his son Tawfiq
in the induction in exchange for the Mayor giving him the five feddans
he was farming, assigning him a special work crew and giving him a
cash reward. Abdel Mawgud and his son agreed to this. Then Masri was
killed in the October War, but he had already confessed the truth
about what had happened to a recruiter named Hassan [Ashraf Abdel Baqi]. The police were
investigating the incident, but Abdel Mawgud denied being Masri's
father out of fear of the Mayor's anger, who had only paid him 261
pounds and refused to give him the land he had promised.
Cast and crew: Omar Sharif, Achraf Abdel Baqi, Ezzat El Alaili, Safia El Emari, Salah Abouseif, Abdullah Mahmoud, Khaled Nabawy, Youssef El-Kaeed, Enaam Salousa, Hassan Hosny, Hanan Shawki, Ashraf Abdel Baqi, Rushdi El Mahdi, Lola Mohamed, Mohsen Zayed, Tarek El-Telmisany, Yousef al-Qa'eed, Al-Montaser Billah, Magdi Sobhi, Mohamed Al-Seba, Rushdi El Mahdi, Abol Fotouh Omara, Naim Esa, Lola Mohamed
Pictured is an original 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made to promote the
1960 127-minute Salah Abouseif black-and-white film The Dead among
the Living [bedaya wa nehaya] based on a novel by Naguib Mahfouz
with screenplay by Salah Ezzedine, dialogue by Ahmed Shawqi and Kamel
Abdel Salam and cinematography by Kamal Korayem. Plot summary: The
head of the household died leaving the family suffering from hardship
and deprivation. The oldest son Hassan [Farid Shawqi] ended up living
in a depraved neighborhood dealing in drugs and women. Hussein [Kamal
Hussein] the middle son took work with his middle school diploma to
provide an opportunity for his brother Hassanein [Omar Sharif] to
complete his studies and go to the war college. The daughter Nafisa
[Sanaa Gamil] was without beauty and found herself driven out of the
life of Soliman [Salah Mansour] the grocer after sinning with him.
She continued on this disreputable path without any friends. She
helped her brother Hassanein and her mother [Amina Rizk] with small
amounts of money she had acquired. Hassanein graduated as an officer.
He turned his back on his family, his fiancee Bayeha [Amal Farid] and
his social milieu and rose to associate with the wealthy class through
marriage. Hassan returned to his family broken-hearted, wounded and
driven out of the police force. At the same time Hassanein was
summoned to the police station because his sister had been accused of
debauchery. Hassanein was in denial at first, but then knocked Nafisa
down, kicked dirt on her and finally goaded her into drowning herself
to eliminate the scandal after he was forced to acknowledge her guilt.
This is the confrontation depicted on the poster. Then when it was too
late he regretted her death, thought about his own life, saw his own
world in ruins and jumped into the Nile himself.
This film is on film critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Farid Shawqi, Amina Rizk, Amal Zayed, Sanaa Gamil, Kamal Hussein, Salah Mansour, Omar Sharif, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Kamal Korayem, Naguib Mahfouz, Amina Rizk, Amal Farid, Hamed Morsi, Ahmed Shoukry, Souraya Fakhry, Mokhtar Hussein, Mohamed Hamdi, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Kamal Karim, Salah Ezzedine, Ahmed Shawqi, Kamel Abdel Salam
Pictured is an Egyptian rerelease poster by an unknown designer
made to promote the 1957 120-minute Salah Abouseif black-and-white
film Tough Guy [al-fotuwwah] starring Farid Shawqi based on a
story by Mahmoud Sobhi and Farid Shawqi with screenplay by Naguib
Mahfouz, Salah Abouseif, Mahmoud Sobhi and El Sayed Bedir and
cinematography by Hesham Wadid Serri.
The man pictured on the poster is the late Farid Shawqi
(1920-1998), one of Egypt's most popular and prolific actors, who
appeared in 275 films made in Egypt, Turkey and Syria. The poster
shows Shawqi as a peasant wearing a traditional galabiyya, holding
the tail of it between his teeth to make it easier to run.
The film is about a man from a rural area who comes to Cairo
looking for work, rises to social prominence as the owner of a
successful produce business and then eventually loses most of what he
has and almost his life in an altercation with an arch competitor. It
is a black-and-white thriller with overtones of an old-time urban
gangster film. The film is included on critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007
list of Egypt's 100 most important films, and it is also in the top
100 according to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq.
Plot Summary: A man from upper Egypt named Haridi [Farid Shawqi] is
looking for a way to feed himself working in a vegetable market. The
work is hard manual labor but he succeeds in the employ of an
important merchant named Abu Zayd [Zaki Rostom] and also with the help
of a experienced woman named Husseinia [Taheyya Cariocca]. Haridi
becomes one of Abu Zayd's close associates and learns all his secrets,
ways of taking bribes, holding public auctions and peddling
influence. Haridi then separates from Abu Zayd, marries Husseinia and
becomes an important merchant. After a long series of heated and
sometimes violent clashes with Haridi, Abu Zayd goes to prison and
Haridi becomes the social boss of the market using Abu Zayd's methods
and following in his footsteps as another oppressor. He even acquires
the title "Bey." When Abu Zayd is released from prison there is a
dispute between him and Haridi over a big auction. The dispute
becomes a hot confrontation in which Abu Zayd dies and Haridi is
arrested.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Taheya Cariocca, Salah Abouseif, Zaki Rostom, Mimi Shakeeb, Tewfik El Dekn, Fakher Fakher, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa, Naguib Mahfouz, Hassan el Baroudi, Mohamed Reda, Abdel Alim Khattab, Hoda Soltan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Hesham Wadid Serri, Wadid Serri, Naima Wasfy, Loutfy El Hakim, Salwa Mohamed, Mahmoud Sobhi, El Sayed Bedeir, Kamal Yassine, Nazim Shaarawy, Ahmed al-Hamaqi, Abdou Youssef
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mahmoud Atef to
promote the 1961 137-minute Salah Abouseif black-and-white
film Hope against Hope [la tutfi al-shams] starring Faten
Hamama based on story and dialogue by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, screenplay
by Lucien Lambert and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary:
This film is set in the time of the Tripartite Aggression; it tells
the story of an aristocratic family that has lost its breadwinner.
The oldest son Ahmed [Shukry Sarhan] enlists in the Egyptian army and
is shown in desert military action, but in his civilian life he slowly
develops a relationship with the a woman named Shahira [Nadia Lutfi],
which ends in marriage after a few relatively minor complications.
The daughter Layla [Faten Hamama] falls in love with her piano teacher
[Imad Hamdi], who is married. This relationship is fraught with
difficult moral and social problems that are never resolved. The
younger son Mamdouh [Ahmed Ramzy] is more concerned with the practical
matter of earning a livelihood; he serves a vehicle for showing how
class and social issues in Egypt can disrupt productive economic activity.
Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Faten Hamama, Imad Hamdi, Nadia Lutfi, Ahmed Ramzy, Shukry Sarhan, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Lucien Lambert, Helmy Halim, Abdelhalim Nasr, Aqila Ratib, Laila Taher, Samiha Ayyoub, Shirin, Mohammed Alwan, Omar Zolficar, Mohamed Hamdi, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Ya'qub Michail, Amru Targoman, Adel Al-Mahilmi, Abdel Aziz Mikawi, Nesim Shehab, Alaa Badredin, Salah Musa, Laila Sadeq
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
This is an undated Egyptian rerelease poster made to promote the 1958
Salah Abouseif 121-minute color film Sleepless [la anam]
starring Faten Hamama and Omar Sharif based on a story by Ihsan Abd
al-Qudus with screenplay by El Sayed Bedeir and Salah Ezzedine,
dialogue by Saleh Gawdat and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot
summary: Nadia's [Faten Hamama] father [Yehia Chahine] divorced her
mother and she grew up in her father's care. He did not remarry and
dedicated his life to educating and caring for his daughter. When
Nadia was 16 her father married Safia [Mariam Fakhr Eddine] who was a
lady of nobility, but Nadia was alienated from the woman who came to
take her mother's place in her father's castle. Nadia met Mostafa
[Imad Hamdi] at a party and began dating him and frequenting his
apartment without the knowledge of her family. Then Mostafa met her
father's wife at a party and showed an interest in her. Nadia became
more jealous of her, which led to her banishment from the house.
Nadia deceived her father into believing there was a sinful
relationship between his wife and his brother Aziz [Omar Sharif] who
was living in the house with him. The father divorced his wife and she
departed from the home, leaving Nadia lady of the house once more.
Nadia felt remorse of conscience and arranged for her father to marry
Kawsar [Hind Rostom], an old associate of hers they encountered while
on a beach in Alexandria. However she quickly discovered that her
father's new wife Kawsar had a lover named Samir [Rushdy Abaza] to
whom she intended to give the wealth of Nadia's father. Nadia
recorded a telephone conversation between them demonstrating this.
She refrained from telling the truth to her father to keep from
ruining his marriage a second time. Her suffering increased when she
realized Mostafa did not love her after all and that he had gone to
Safia after the divorce and courted her for himself. Her father came
upon Mostafa's new wife with her lover and Nadia had to convince her
father that he was her own lover who had come to court her. However
Nadia could not continue the deception and finally told her father the
truth on the wedding night. Fate intervened another time when a
candle set fire to Nadia's wedding gown right after she had refused to
marry Samir during a forced ceremony and was taken to a hospital,
where they saved her life leaving her body disfigured with burns.
This film is included on critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of Egypt's
100 most important films.
Cast and crew: Imad Hamdi, Hind Rostom, Salah Abouseif, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Faten Hamama, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Omar Sharif, Rushdy Abaza, Yehia Chahine, Abdelhalim Nasr, Mahmoud Nasr, Rafia al-Shal, Salah Ezzedine, El Sayed Bedeir, Saleh Gawdat
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist to
promote the 1967 Salah Abouseif 111-minute black-and-white film The
Second Wife [الزوجة الثانية az-zawget at-tania] starring Soad Hosny based on a
story by Ahmed Rushdy Saleh with screenplay and dialogue by Mohammad
Mostafa Sami and Sa'd al-Din Wahba and cinematography by Abdelhalim
Nasr. Plot summary: A village mayor [Salah Mansour] fancies a young
woman named Fatma [Soad Hosny] in his village. There are two problems. First, his
present wife Hafiza [Sanaa Gamil] does not want him to take a second
wife, and second, the young woman the mayor desires already has a
husband Aboul-Eyli [Shukry Sarhan] with children and they are a happy family with
a lot of love for one another. The mayor does not care about these
things, because he is the corrupt bad guy who already has a
reputation for abusing and cheating his villagers. He forces the young
woman's husband to divorce her so she can marry him, which he does,
causing much pain and regret to himself, his wife and his
children. The mayor marries the divorced woman and takes her into his
home, but in a long series of comic evasive episodes she contrives
never to sleep with him. The mayor, who was already sick, eventually
dies. Fatma becomes a village hero for standing up for the
village people against the mayor in his schemes to take their land,
and after the mayor dies she returns to her husband, poor but
happy. This is a social realist film with lots of accurate detail
about life in an Egyptian village, directed by the late socialist
director Salah Abouseif (1915-1996). This film may be realistic for its details
about village life, but Fatma's successful evasion of the
mayor's designs is probably not as realistic as the film suggests.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Shukry Sarhan, Sanaa Gamil, Salah Mansour, Soheir El-Morshidy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Salah Abouseif, Abdelhalim Nasr, Ahmed Rushdy Saleh, Muhammad Nuh, Mohammad Mostafa Sami, Hassan el Baroudi, Sa'd al-Din Wahba, Naima Al Soghayar, Ibrahim Al-Shami, Iskandar Mansy, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdy, Mohammad Idris, Ahmed Sami, Redwan Hafez
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Ahmad Hamed to
promote the 1963 111-minute Salah Abuseif black-and-white film No
Time for Love [la waqt lil-hob] starring Faten Hamama and Rushdy
Abaza based on a story by Youssef Idris with dialogue by Youssef
Idris, screenplay by Lucien Lamber and cinematography by Abdelhalim
Nasr. Plot summary: This is a story set in the time of the 1952 Cairo
fire and revolt against the English, beautifully filmed on carefully
constructed, historically accurate sets. Faten Hamama as Fawzia and
Rushdy Abaza as Hamza are in a romantic relationship as they
collaborate to bomb the English while evading retaliation.
Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Faten Hamama, Abdallah Gheith, Salah Abouseif, Youssef Idris, Lucien Lamber, Abelhalim Nasr, Salah Jahine, Ahmed Tewfik, Abdel Aziz Makyawi, Ibrahim Fawz, Kheiry Al-Qalyoubi, Esmat Mahmoud, Badr Nofal, Hassan Hosny
This is an Egyptian promotional poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour for the 1991 120-minute Salah Abouseif color film War in the
Land of Egypt [al-mowaten: masri] starring Omar Sharif, based on
the novel al-harb fi bar misr by Youssef El-Kaeed with
screenplay by Mohsen Zayed and cinematography by Tarek El-Telmisany.
Plot summary: In 1972 in an Egyptian village Abdel Zeraq al-Shershabi,
a shrewd feudal mayor, recovered his farmland by court order after the
lifting of a receivership. His young second wife threatened to tell
people he had become sexually impotent if he did not prevent their
only son Tawfiq from being drafted into the army along with his other
children from his first wife. The mayor pressured an oppressed farm
laborer named Abel Mawgud to have his son Masri, who was exempt from
the draft, take the place of his son Tawfiq in the induction in
exchange for the Mayor giving him the five feddans of he was farming,
assigning him a special work crew and giving him a cash reward. Abdel
Mawgud and his son agreed to this. Then Masri was killed in the
October War, but he had already confessed the truth about what had
happened to a recruiter named Hassan. The police were investigating
the incident, but Abdel Mawgud denied being Masri's father out of fear
of the Mayor's anger, who had only paid him 261 pounds and refused to
give him the land he had promised.
Cast and crew: Omar Sharif, Achraf Abdel Baqi, Ezzat El Alaili, Safia El Emari, Salah Abouseif, Abdullah Mahmoud, Khaled Nabawy, Youssef El-Kaeed, Enaam Salousa, Hassan Hosny, Hanan Shawki, Ashraf Abdel Baqi, Rushdi El Mahdi, Lola Mohamed, Mohsen Zayed, Tarek El-Telmisany, Yousef al-Qa'eed, Al-Montaser Billah, Magdi Sobhi, Mohamed Al-Seba, Rushdi El Mahdi, Abol Fotouh Omara, Naim Esa, Lola Mohamed
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian undated rerelease poster by an unknown
artist for the 1960 Salah Abouseif film Between Heaven and
Earth based on a screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz, El Sayed Bedeir and
Salah Abuseif and starring Hind Rostom as the movie star Nahed Shukry.
A group of city people got into an elevator going to various floors in
a big building. There was an actress who had a role to play in a film
about the tallest building. She was being pursued by a man who was in
the habit of following women. There was a woman going to her lover,
and there was someone from a gang that steals valuables. There was a
crazy person fleeing from a mental hospital and an old man who had
left his family to marry a younger woman. The elevator stopped
working, but the doorman had gone to see a soccer game, so the rescue
was delayed. The police were called, who finally located the elevator
and broke through the wall. The rescue was made and they all went
back to their original plans. The actress completed her job, the
thief was arrested and the man who loved women went looking for a new
woman. According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of
the top 100 Egyptian films. This film is also on film critic Ahmad
Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films.
Although it was not a commercial success, it was Egypt's entry in the
Yugoslavia Film Festival in 1960.
Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, El Sayed Bedeir, Hind Rostom, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Said Abu Bakr, Naima Wasfy, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Shafik Noureddin, Mahmoud Azmy, Zizi Mustafa, Wahid Farid, Naguib Mahfouz, Ahmed Louxor, Souraya Fakhry, Nazim Shaarawy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Fathy al-Khadri for
the 1945 Salah Abouseif film Always in My Heart starring Aqila Rateb as Seniyya. This film is an
adaptation of the 1940 Mervyn LeRoy film Waterloo Bridge
starring Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh. Like the prototype, this
film portrays a tragic heroine who falls in love with a sailor, but
unlike the prototype, in this Egyptian variation, an important early
effort by the great realist/socialist director Salah Abouseif, the
heroine is an orphan rather than a ballerina. The themes of despair,
prostitution and separated lovers are common to both.
Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Imad Hamdi, Aqila Ratib, Ahmed Khorshed, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Zouzou Nabil, Said Abu Bakr, Dawlad Abiad, Mervyn LeRoy, Mostafa Al-Sayed, El Sayed Bedeir, Zeinat Sedki, Mansi Fahmi, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa, Hassan Kamel
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the
1981 film Al-Qadesiya written and directed by Salah Abouseif
and starring Soad Hosny as Shirin. Plot summary: This film is a costume drama produced in Iraq. It depicts the 636 battle of Yarmouk, along what is today the border between Syria and Jordan. Yarmouk is considered one of most decisive battles in human history.
Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Soad Hosny, Ezzat El Alaili, Mustafa Imam, Hassan El-Gendi, Laila Taher, Kanaan Wasfy
Ria and Sekina 1953 rare oversize Egyptian film poster (19"x54")
Based on a true story, directed by Salah Abouseif, story and screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz and Salah Abouseif, art by Solly, printed by Orfand and Sons, distributed by Al-Hilal Films, cinematography Wahid Farid, starring Anwar Wagdi, Nagwa Ibrahim, Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim, Farid Shawqi, Shukry Sarhan, Samira Ahmed, Berlanty Abdel Hamid, Reyad El Kasabgy, Shafik Galal, Said Khalil and Seraj Munir.
English Plot Summary from Film Program: Ghoulish fiends in female shape, murderesses without parallel in the annals of criminology in Egypt! Though thirty years have elapsed since the hangman's noose throttled forever their foul activities, those who remember still shake with horror when thinking of them.
The curtain is raised in Alexandria, the second largest city of Egypt, where for two consecutive years its inhabitants were living under a spell of terror: young women were disappearing into thin air one after the other, leaving absolutely no trace; the police were at their wits end and it was certain that these disappearances were caused by a most highly organized gang and could not be brought about by an individual single-handed.
117 women had disappeared and still the entire police force of Alexandria were baffled and seemingly powerless to break up the gang... until one day an apparently insignificant bit of information pricked the ears of a smart young police officer, who at the risk of his life set about to free the country from these murderers: he was certain now that all the missing victims had been murdered, and that the motive was robbery, since all the women wore on them gold jewellery.
These horrible crimes could not go on indefinitely and the old dictum 'crime does not pay' had to be proved correct once more: after breath-stopping incidents the country at last learnt with immense relief the arrest of the gang of assassins; after their arrest only 37 bodies could be found out of the 117 missing.
The scenario of the film Raya and Sekina on the basis of which the film has been made is nothing more than a complete reporting of the case, dramatically brought to screen-life following a thorough study of the Criminal Investigation Department's old files.
