Shame on You حرام عليك Ismail Yasseen 1954 Egyptian film program

Shame on You (1954) - (Ismail Yasseen) Egyptian film program

Pictured is a first printing of an 8" x 11" 8-page Egyptian film program to promote the 1954 92-minute Essa Karama black-and-white film Shame on You [haram aleyk] starring Ismail Yasseen based on screen play, story and dialogue by Gamal Hamdi with cinematography by Richard Salama. Parts of the story are also taken from the 1948 Charles Barton film Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Plot summary: Ismail and Abdou [Ismail Yasseen and Abdel Fatah Al Kasri] are working in a shop that sells antiquities. One day they receive a crate containing a mummy that looks like Frankenstein. A a sorcerer [Stephan Rosti] says he will be able to bring the mummy back to life by replacing its brain with Ismail's brain. The plan goes awry when Ismail and the mummy are laid out side by side for the brain transfer, because the mummy throws off its restraining straps and goes into a zombie-like Frankenstein walk, making various clumsy assaults on the people and fixtures that disrupt the proceedings. Apparently what really brings the mummy to life is the fear of receiving the brain of Ismail Yasseen! Alternate English titles are Ismail Yassin Meets Frankenstein and Ismail and Abdel Meet Frankenstein.

Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Essa Karama, Gamal Hamdi, Mary Shelley, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Stephan Rosti, Sanaa Gamil, Nabil Al Alfi, Lola Sedki, Richard Salama, Mohamed Sabih, Abdel Hamid Zaki

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Heart of Gold قلب من دهب (Mariam Fakhr Eddine) - (1959) Egyptian one-sheet

Heart of Gold (1959) - (Mariam Fakhr Eddine) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1959 90-minute black-and-white Mohammed Karim film Heart of Gold ['alb min dahab] starring Mariam Fakhr Eddine based on a screenplay by Mohammed Karim with dialogue by Abdel Waress Assar and cinematography by Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary: This film tells the story of a strange turn of events where a woman believes she has killed a pedestrian woman while driving, then ends up marrying the dead woman's husband, who already knew her and happened to be in love with her.

Cast and crew: Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Abdel Waress Assar, Imad Hamdi, Ferdoos Mohammed, Muhammed Karim, Sanaa Gamil, Aziza Helmy, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Sabry Abdel Aziz, Kamel Anwar, Kamel Al-Zini, Salah al-Masri

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Whose Daughter Am I? [انا بنت مين؟] (Leila Fawzi) Egyptian Stone Litho one-sheet

Whose Daughter Am I? [انا بنت مين؟] (1952) - (dir: Hassan Al Imam) Egyptian stone litho film poster

This is a 35" x 23.5" Egyptian stone litho one-sheet designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1952 Hassan Al Imam 150-minute black-and-white film Whose Daughter Am I? based on story and dialogue by Mohamed Mustafa Samy, screenplay by Hassan Al Imam and starring Leila Fawzi as Nemat. Plot summary: Moharram [Mohsen Hassanein] is managing his niece Zizi's money; Zizi has killed her father with the help of Hamed [Farid Shawqi]. Galal [Mohsen Sarhan], the son of Moharram, has a relationship with Nemat and she becomes pregnant, but Moharram will not allow his son to marry her. She is obliged to flee the scandal and live with the blind Sheikh Saleh, where she has her baby, a girl named Samiha. Hamed burns the home of Sheikh Saleh when he finds out Nemat is living there. He kidnapped the girl and adopted her. Galal married Zizi. Samiha grows up a poor orphan without knowing the identity of her father.

Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Mohsen Sarhan, Mohsen Hassanein, Hussein Riad, Sanaa Gamil, Hassan el Baroudi, Farid Shawqi, Leila Fawzi, Ahmed Allam, Sherifa Maher, Mohamed Mustafa Samy, Mostafa Hassan, Mansi Fahmi, Wedad Hamdy, Fakher Fakher, Salah Wahbi, Souraya Fakhry, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohammad Idris, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Soheir Fakhry

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Shame on You (حرام عليك) (Ismail Yasseen) - (1954) Egyptian poster

Shame on You [haram aleyk] (1954) - (Ismail Yasseen) original Egyptian 23x35 film poster

Pictured is a first printing of an original year 23.5" x 35.25" Egyptian stone litho poster designed by Farag to promote the 1954 92-minute Essa Karama black-and-white film Shame on You [haram aleyk] starring Ismail Yasseen based on screenplay, story and dialogue by Gamal Hamdi with cinematography by Richard Salama. Plot summary: Ismail and Abdou [Ismail Yasseen and Abdel Fatah Al Kasri] are working in a shop that sells antiquities. One day they acquire a crate containing a mummy (that looks like Frankenstein). A sorcerer [Stephan Rosti] thinks he will be able to bring the mummy back to life by replacing its brain with Ismail's brain. The plan goes awry when Ismail and the mummy are laid out side by side for the brain transfer, because the mummy throws off its chains and goes into a zombie-like Frankenstein walk, making various clumsy assaults on the people and fixtures that disrupt the proceedings. Apparently what really brings the mummy to life is the fear of receiving the brain of Ismail Yasseen! Alternate English titles are Ismail Yassin Meets Frankenstein and Ismail and Abdel Meet Frankenstein.

Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Essa Karama, Gamal Hamdi, Mary Shelley, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Stephan Rosti, Sanaa Gamil, Nabil Al Alfi, Lola Sedki, Richard Salama, Mohamed Sabih, Abdel Hamid Zaki

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The Dead among the Living [بداية ونهاية] (Omar Sharif) - (1960)

The Dead among the Living [bedaya wa nehaya] (Omar Sharif) - (1960) Egyptian film poster

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

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Tawhida [توحيده] (Magda El-Khatib) - (1976)

Tawhida (Magda El-Khatib) (1972) Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mostafa El-Seyyed and Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1976 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 94-minute color film Tawhida starring the late Magda El-Khatib (1943-2006) as Tawhida based on the play Fanny by Marcel Pagnol with screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz, dialogue by Sabry Ezza and cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot Summary: Tawhida and Hussein [Nour El-Sherfi] were passionately in love in Alexandria and she became pregnant. Hussein left her and the unborn child because he did not have enough income to provide for them. Tawhida could not find anyone to save her and her child from this predicament other than an older man named Said Bey [Rushdy Abaza] who married her; she had the child after marrying him. Hussein returned to learn that his love had married. He tried to restore their relationship but she turned away from him; he also discovered she had had a son by him and they quarreled over this. Then he withdrew from their lives. Then Said also withdrew, realizing that it was the best thing for everyone, and Tawhida and her son finally went back to Hussein. At 41:58 one sees the ill-fated Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro docked at the Port of Alexandria about ten years before it was hijacked off the coast of Egypt by four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front.

Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Sanaa Gamil, Farid Shawqi, Achille Lauro, Magda El-Khatib, Amira, Nour El-Sherif, Naguib Mahfouz, Ibrahim Saleh, Marcel Pagnol, Sabry Ezzat

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Shame on You [حرام عليك] (Ismail Yasseen) - (1954)

Shame on You [haram aleyk] (Ismail Yasseen) (1957) original two-piece Egyptian stone litho film poster

Pictured is a first printing of a two-piece Egyptian stone litho poster designed by Farag to promote the 1954 92-minute Essa Karama black-and-white film Shame on You [haram aleyk] starring Ismail Yasseen based on screenplay, story and dialogue by Gamal Hamdi with cinematography by Richard Salama. Plot summary: Ismail and Abdou [Ismail Yasseen and Abdel Fatah Al Kasri] are working in a shop that sells antiquities. One day they acquire a crate containing a mummy (that looks like Frankenstein). A sorcerer [Stephan Rosti] thinks he will be able to bring the mummy back to life by replacing its brain with Ismail's brain. The plan goes awry when Ismail and the mummy are laid out side by side for the brain transfer, because the mummy throws off its chains and goes into a zombie-like Frankenstein walk, making various clumsy assaults on the people and fixtures that disrupt the proceedings. Alternate English titles are Ismail Yassin Meets Frankenstein and Ismail and Abdel Meet Frankenstein.

Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Essa Karama, Gamal Hamdi, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Stephan Rosti, Sanaa Gamil, Nabil Al Alfi, Lola Sedki, Richard Salama, Mohamed Sabih, Abdel Hamid Zaki

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Ismail Yassine at the Wax Museum [إسماعيل يس في متحف الشمع] (Ismail Yasseen)

Ismail Yassine at the Wax Museum [ismail yasseen fi mathaf al-sham'] (Ismail Yasseen) (1957) Original Egyptian film poster

Pictured is an Egyptian poster designed by Fawzi to promote the 114-minute 1957 Essa Karama black-and-white film Ismail Yassine at the Wax Museum [ismail yasseen fi mathaf al-shami] starring Ismail Yasseen based on story and screenplay by Gamal Hamdi and Essa Karama, dialogue by Gamal Hamdi and cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A police officer discovered a plan hatched by some gang members to smuggle jewelry inside some wax figures. Two gravediggers Ibrahim and Abdou [Ismail Yasseen and Abdel Fatah Al Kasri] became involved in a plan bury the statues. A dancer named Kitty came to the museum looking for her lover and pretended she was a statue for the benefit of the gravediggers. After a long series of comedic sketches and heinous murders among the figures in the wax museum, the officer finally discovered to his surprise that the gang leader was a woman, who fell off a roof to her death almost immediately after her mask was removed.

Cast and crew: Essa Karama, Ismail Yasseen, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Berlanty Abdel Hamid, Bruno Salvi, Gamal Hamdi, Kitty, Sanaa Gamil, Fouad Gafaar, Mohamed Tawfik, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Ali Abdel Al, Ali Rushdy, Soad Ahmed, Fifi Youssef, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Mohsen Hassanein, Lola Sedki, Mohamed al-Dib, Abdel Ghani al-Nagdi

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The Second Wife [الزوجة الثانية ] (Soad Hosny) - (1967)

The Second Wife (1967) - (Soad Hosny) Egyptian one-sheet poster

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

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Dawn of a New Day فجر يوم جديد (dir: Youssef Chahine) - (1964) Egyptian one-sheet

Dawn of a New Day (1964) - (dir: Youssef Chahine) Egyptian one-sheet

This is an Egyptian film poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1964 Youssef Chahine 100-minute color film Dawn of a New Day [fagr yom gedid] with story and screenplay by Samir Nasry, dialogue by Abdel Rahman El-Sharqawy, cinematography by Abel Aziz Fahmy and starring the late Sanaa Gamil (1930-2002) as Nayed. Plot summary: A varied group of bourgeois people were living in poverty in Cairo after political conditions turned against them. They included Nayed, a women in her 40s. She met a young man named Tareq (Seif El Dine) and was drawn to him even though he was from a completely different social class; she did not choose a man from her own class, not even Abu Al-Ala who was trying to get close to her. Tareq was still a student at the university living in a humble room on an upper floor and studying engineering. The boy had to go abroad for three years to complete his studies. He discovered that Nayed was treating him as a substitute for a small boy who had died years ago. This is what started her relationship with a poor man, but he was unable to correct the situation. Nayed tried to obtain the money to give to her beloved so he could complete his studies, working as a secretary at the press office her brother managed, but then she suddenly decided to end her association with this boy, who was no more than twenty-two years of age; they said goodbye to each other at the Cairo Station.

Cast and crew: Youssef Chahine, Sanaa Gamil, Seif Eddine Shawkat, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Seif El Dine, Hamdy Gheith, Soheir El-Bably, Abdel Rahman El-Sharqawy, Samir Nasry

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