This is an 8" x 10.5" 12-page film program for the 1954 Ezzel Dine
Zulficar film Appointmennt with Life based on the 1939 Edmund
Goulding film Dark Victory starring Bette Davis, written by
Ezzel Dine Zulficar and Youssef Issa and starring Faten Hamama as
Amal. Plot summary: Engineer Ahmad loved Amal and lived with her in
the same house with her friend Fatima, daughter of the farm
overseer. Fatima loved the doctor Mamdouh, but he was unaware of it.
Amal's father, who was a great doctor, discovered that she had a
serious heart disease. He kept this information from her. However
Amal happened to hear a conversation between her father and
Dr. Mamdouh about her own critical condition, and she learned the
truth. Amal began taking steps to make it possible for Ahmad to leave
her and not have a relationship with her, despite the love between
them. Amal's father was hoping to operate on her to save her life,
and when he did so it improved her condition. Ahmad understood the
situation and Amal's secret she had been trying to keep from him.
Amal was ready to marry Ahmad and Fatima agreed to marry Dr. Mamdouh.
Cast and crew: Faten Hamama, Shukry Sarhan, Shadia, Hussein Riad,
Ezzel Dine Zulficar, Wahid Farid, Youssef Issa, Omar El-Hariri, Abdel
Waress Assar, Zeinat Sedki, Nour Al-Demerdash, Said Abu Bakr, Abdel
Ghani Al-Nagdi, Edmund Goulding
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1972 Houssam El-Din
Mustafa crime comedy Devils of the Sea based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Adly El-Mowalid and starring Shukry
Sarhan. Plot summary: In the city of Alexandria Hamada, [Mohamed Awad]
Salah [Youssef Fakhr Eddine] and Hassan [Hassan Youssef] were brought
together by friendship and locale. The three of them were trying to
get into a relationship with some men dealing in contraband. One day
they stole Haroun's [Ahmed Louxor] automobile, fled in it and were
chased by the police. The three friends went to a recruiting office
and joined the navy. At the same time Salah's sister Samia [Nelly]
went to work for Haroun as his secretary; she was also helping Adel,
[Shukry Sarhan] an undercover detective, in his effort to trap
Haroun's gang.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Walid Wahig for the
1975 Ismail al-Qadi film Divorcees based on story, screenplay
and dialogue by Kamel al-Hefnawi and starring Shams El-Barudy as
Samia. Plot summary: Samia loved her husband Wahid, but there were
many indications he was having relations with other women. Samia asked
for a separation and formed a new relationship with Adel, [Shukry
Sarhan] the manager at the company where she worked. Adel knew Samia
well and tried to get her father [Imad Hamdi] to let him marry her
after her divorce. Samia's mother Zeinab [Mimi Shakeeb] objected
strenuously; Samia became confused about her relationship with Adel,
but Adel pressed the case until Samia's mother agreed to the marriage.
This is an Egyptian one-sheet designed by Walid Wahig for the 1971
Atef Salem film Girls in the University based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud Abo Zaid and starring Shukry
Sarhan as Morad. Plot summary: The film tells a story about a group
of men and women from different walks of life studying at an Egyptian
university and their romances and friendships.
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Mahmoud Fahmy, Shukry Sarhan, Soheir
El-Morshidy, Nour El-Sherif, Nabila El Sayed, Hafez Amin, Zizi
Mustafa, Atef Salem, Mahmoudd Abo Zaid, Momtaz Abaza, Nadia al-Kilani,
Ahmed Abdel Halim, Tewfik El Dekn, Wafiq Fahmy, Alia Ali, Ibrahim
Sakar
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy to promote
the 1978 Ashraf Fahmy 110-minute black-and-white film Journey
inside the Woman [rahlet dakhel emra'a] starring Nadia Lutfi based
on a story with dialogue by Moussa Sabry, screenplay by Rafiq
As-Sabban and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot Summary: Kamal was
willing to set aside his principles for the sake of his greed and his
ambition to get into high positions. His wife Amal was left to
languish in boredom because her husband was too busy for her. She had
no problem letting her innocent friendship with Mahmoud develop into a
love affair, but she didn't rush into it because she wanted to hang on
to her social position as a wife, so she asked Mahmoud to keep his
distance. Mahmoud's fortunes improved and he acquired a lot of money
and property, so he quit his studies and research, but Amal no longer
knew him as the person he used to be, and their relationship changed.
She was not close to her husband either but she carried on with her
life and stuck to her principles.
Cast and crew: Ashraf Fahmy, Nabila Ebeid, Tewfk El Dekn, Mahmoud
Rashad, Hussein El Sherbni, Nour El-Sherif, Shukry Sarhan, Nadia
Lutfi, Moussa Sabry, Wahid Farid, Malek El Gamal, Rafiq As-Sabban,
Nadia Arsalan, Wedad Hamdy, Aida Abdel Aziz, Nahed Samir, Omar Nagy,
Ashraf Al-Salahdar, Farouk Felouks, Nadia Shukry
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Abdel Rahman
and Mohammad Aziz for the 1964 Ahmed Diaeddin film If I Were a
Man AKA law kont ragolan written by Ibrahim al-Wardani and
Ahmed Diaeddin and starring Aida Hilal as Mona Hafez. Plot summary:
Mona Hafez was working in a library researching her doctoral
dissertation on zoology, but her colleague Samir harassed her so much
she had to quit. Her brother Moneim, an actor playing a secondary
role in a theater group, was trying to find her a husband among his
friends, but she did everything she could to make them hate her. Mona
went to Alexandria to work there. She read about a magazine contest
for married people for the best story about the secret of their
happiness. She entered and won, claimed she was married and sent a
picture of her brother Moneim as her husband. To her surprise she won
and was told by a representative of the magazine she and her husband
would be taken on a seven-day trip around the world. She needed to
find a husband as soon as possible but was unable to solve the problem
by consulting a matchmaker.
Cast and crew: Shukry Sarhan, Ibrahim al-Wardani, Ibrahim Adel,
Mohammad Aziz, Abdul Rahman, Youssef Chaban, Abddel Moneim Ibrahim,
Ahmed Diaeddin, Aida Hilal, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Ibrahim Adel, Aziza
Helmy, Esmat Mahmoud, Sabry Abdel Aziz, Adly Kasseb, Abdel Rahman
Abuzahra, Lutfy al-Hakim, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra, Awatef Ramadan,
Abdel Salam Mohammed
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour and Moaty
to promote the 1968 Ahmed Diaeddin 96-minute black-and-white
film The Student and the Professor [al-talmiza wal-ostaz]
starring Soad Hosny based on a story by Adly el-Mowalid with
screenplay and dialogue by Adly El-Mowalid and Abdel Fatah al-Sayed
with cinematography by Kamal Korayem. Plot summary: When Salwa's
[Soad Hosny] father dies she must quit school and become an apprentice
seamstress, but because of a conflict there she is ordered into a
reformatory for girls. In the reformatory she also has problems with
the personnel, but she gradually forms a relationship with Wahid Farid
[Shukry Sarhan], a music teacher she eventually marries.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Shukry Sarhan, Abdel Moneim Madbouly,
Ahmed Diaeddin, Adly El-Mowalid, Kamal Korayem, Abdel Moneim Madbouly,
Samia Shukry, Gamalat Zayed, Wahid Farid, Abdel Fatah al-Sayed, Ahmed
al-Haddad, Salama Elias, Alia Abdel Moneim, Nadia Ezzat, Enaam
Salousa, Hekmat Fouad, Nadia Gamil
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Mohammad
Abdel Aziz to promote the 1962 124-minute Kamal El Sheikh
black-and-white film Chased by the Dogs [al-liss wal-kelab]
starring Shadia and Shukry Sarhan based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz
with screenplay by Sabry Ezzat, dialogue by Ali El Zorkani and
cinematography by Kamal Korayem. Plot summary: Said Mohran [Shukry
Sarhan] worked as a house servant in a student's home. Because of his
mother's illness he had to steal a watch from a student. Raouf Alwan
[Kamal al-Shennawi] got involved, tried to save him and took him as a
protege in crime. Said became a big thief. His assistant Alish [Zein
El-Ashmawy] informed on him so he would be free to marry his wife
Nabawiya. When Said Mohran got out of prison his goal was to take
revenge against Alish and Nabawiya, but he killed some innocent people
instead by blindly shooting at window silhouettes, because Alish and
Nabawiya had fled their home. Said ran away and became a fugitive.
Raouf, who had become a famous journalist, denounced Said in newspaper
articles, turning public opinion against him. Said confessed what he
had done to his former lover Nour [Shadia] and lived in her house. He
also sought solace with a Sufi sheikh but found no relief. Although
Nour tried help him, the police found his hiding place and killed him
on a mountain during a chase.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Shadia, Shukry Sarhan, Kamal El Sheikh, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Fakher Fakher, Samir Sabri, Salah Mansour, Kamal Korayem, Ali El Zorkani, Sabry Ezzat, Salwa Mahmoud, Salah Jahine, Adly Kasseb, Zein El-Ashmawy, Nazim Shaarawy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Walid Wahig for the 1959 Houssam
El-Din Mustafa film I Won't Forget You [بفكر في اللي ناسيني based on a screenplay by
Mohamed Osmani, story and dialogue by Abdel Hamid Gawda al-Sahar and
starring Hind Rostom as Sawsan. Plot summary: Laila [Fayrouz] was in
love with Engineer Hossam [Shukry Sarhan] and he wanted to propose to
her, but her family would not allow them to marry until her big sister
Sawsan married. Although Sawsan was beautiful and very appealing,
nobody wanted to marry her because she was too egotistical and greedy.
Then she suddenly became obsessed with Hossam and married him; Laila
had a breakdown. After that Hossam's friend Kamal [Rushdy Abaza]
instantly fell in love with Sawsan when she flirted with him,
seemingly oblivious of Sawsan's marriage to his friend Hossam. Kamal
turned his back on his wife and became so crazy about Sawsan that he
quarreled with her when he found her talking to another man, so she
yanked a heavy statue from a mantle and struck him on the head with
it, killing him. They gave Sawsan a ten-year jail sentence; when
Hossam heard what had happened he went back to his first love Laila,
whom he had never forgotten.
Cast and crew: Hind Rostom, Fayrouz, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Rushdy Abaza, Zahrat El-Ola, Shukry Sarhan, Mohamed Osmani, Abdel Hamid Gawda al-Sahar, Ferdoos Mohammed, Fouad Shafik, Salah Nazmi, Yasmin
Pictured is a 27" x 39" original Egyptian stone litho one-sheet
designed by Wahib Fahmy to promote the 1946 Hassan El-Seify 124-minute
black-and-white film Neighborhood Girl [bint el-hetta],
sometimes also translated as The Girl Next Door, starring
Zahrat El-Ola, based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mahmoud
Ismail with cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. This intricate film
about life in a Cairo neighborhood is filmed entirely on a studio
sound stage and its story, dialogue and screenplay are all the
imaginative work of Mahmoud Ismail, who also plays the part of the
scheming Zaki al-Fayoumi. The sound stage does not do a good job of
showing the loud and chaotic character of a lower class Cairo
neighborhood, but that is not its purpose. Ismail wants to present a
psychological tapestry showing interaction and conflict among people
in difficult circumstances trying to satisfy social and financial
needs in various legitimate and illegitimate ways. This early example
of Egyptian social realism also features two classic performances by
the great dancer Samia Gamal in her role as Zaki al-Fayoumi's
collaborator.
Plot summary: Ekhlas [Zahrat El-Ola] is a university student and her
brother Salim [Ahmed Ramzi] is unemployed. Her mother [Zouzou Nabil]
is a domineering wife and her father [Ahmed Al Gaziri] is a man with a
weak personality who sells animal feed. Omar [Shukry Sarhan] owns a
dairy shop, but has stopped working to help his blind mother [Aziza
Helmy] care for his sisters. Zaki al-Fayoumi [Mahmoud Ismail] is a
tyrant who runs a criminal gang. His trusted assistant is Hambaka
[Tewfik El Dekn]; the beautiful and charming dancer Hosnia [Samia
Gamal] is another of his collaborators. Ekhlas loves Omar, who
persuades her to marry him, but Zaki Al-Fayoumi also loves her and
wants to marry her somehow. To this end he exploits her mother's
greed and her unemployed brother Selim's financial condition. He
employs Selim at a big salary and arranges a marriage between him and
Hosnia in exchange for the right to marry Selim's sister. Ekhlas goes
along with the wishes of her mother and brother and agrees to an
engagement with Zaki in return for being allowed to complete her
studies at the university, but this does not settle the question of
who will marry Ekhlas. Hambaka hires Ganzir [Hassan Hosni] and
Farkasha [Ahmed Abaza] to kill Omar to get him away from Ekhlas, but
they only injure him. Then they tell Ekhlas to break off her
engagement to Zaki and agree to marry Omar after he is cured and
leaves the hospital. On other side, to neutralize Omar as his rival
Zaki orders Selim to plant a package of hashish in a cupboard
belonging to Omar, who is then arrested and put in prison. Selim has
an awakening of conscience and feels he committed a great sin in
submitting to Zaki. Ekhlas feels her brother Selim has had a hand in
the planting of the hashish and tells this to her attorney [Anwar
Madkour]. The attorney hires special investigator Labib [George
Sidhum] to follow Selim. When Zaki senses that Selim is no longer
loyal to him, he asks Hosnia to poison his drink while they are in a
bar, but in a dramatic intervention the investigator Labib sitting
nearby jumps up and warns Selim not to drink it. In a ruse, Ekhlas
claims she loves Zaki and wants to marry him. Omar escapes from
prison seeking to prove his innocence. Hambaka and Zaki go to the
police and confess everything, while Selim confesses to planting the
hashish. They all gather at Zaki's home where the police rescue
Ekhlas. A police officer [Mokhtar Al Sayed] shoots and kills Zaki,
Hosnia is killed by her former lover, Ekhlas's mother goes crazy and
Omar's innocence is proven although he is given a six-month suspended
sentence for breaking out of prison.
Cast and crew: Samia Gamal, Shukry Sarhan, Ahmed Ramzy, Mahmoud Ismail, Mostafa Hassan, Zahrat El-Ola, Hassan El-Seify, Zouzou Nabil, Aziza Helmy, Mahmoud Farag, Anwar Madkour, Abdel Mohsen Seleem, Ahmed Abaza, Ahmed Al Gaziri, Hassan Hosni, George Sidhum, Mokhtar El Sayed
This is a 33" x 44.5" stone litho Egyptian film poster designed by
Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1955 El Sayed Ziada film Show
Me the Way People [dillouni ya nass] based on a story by El-Sayed Ziada
with cinematography by Bruno Salvi and starring Doria Ahmed as Nahed.
Plot summary: Nahed was the daughter of a rich woman renowned for her
cruelty. When she fell in love with Hassan [Shukry Sarhan] her mother
forbade them to marry and then found the two of them together in a
public place. When Nahed fled the scene to avoid her mother she fell into a coma and woke up with amnesia. Lost and confused, she
fell prey to an evil magician [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] who
bewitched her and employed her as a singer. He contrived to keep her
with him and deceive all the people who were looking for her.
Cast and crew: El-Sayed Ziada, Doria Ahmed, Shukry Sarhan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Bruno Salvi, Kitty, Zeinat Sedki, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Hind Rostom, Tewfik El Dekn, Alawia Gamil, Omar al Gizawy, Hussein Issa, Shoushou Ezzeddine
Pictured is an Egyptian 35" x 45" poster designed by Hassan Mazhar
Gasour to promote the 1954 El-Sayed Ziada 107-minute black-and-white
film Show Me the Way People [dillouni ya nas] starring Doria
Ahmed based on story, screenplay and dialogue by El-Sayed Ziada with
cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: Hosni the poor boy
[Shukry Sarhan] and Nahed the rich girl [Doria Ahmed] fell in love
despite their social differences but Nahed's father took a vigilant
stand against the relationship. One day the mother [Alawiya Gamil]
saw her daughter hiding among some stalks with her boyfriend and
chased her. During the chase Nahed was hurt in a fall and lost her
memory, which caused her to wander in the street without knowing who
she was. Then she met the hypnotist Dr. Ezzat [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] who
made a nightclub performer of her and profited from her work behind
her back. He knew her mother was looking for her and kept her out of
sight. When the mother published Nahed's picture in the newspaper the
crook hid her even more carefully. Nahed was hurt in another acident,
her memory came back and she decided to go back to her mother, who
welcomed her back, expressed regret and agreed to her marriage to
Hosni.
Cast and crew: El-Sayed Ziada, Doria Ahmed, Shukry Sarhan, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Alawiya Gamil, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Kitty, Hind Rostom, Zeinat Sedki, Choukoukou, Omar al Gizawy, Hussein Esa, Galal Sadeq, Tewfik El Dekn, Ali Kamel, Shoushou Ezzedin
Pictured is an original year Egyptian 35"x45" poster designed by
Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1953 Ibrahim Emara 106-minute
black-and-white film I'm on My Own [malish had] starring Shadia
based ond story and dialogue by Mohammad Mostafa Sami with screenplay
by Ebrahim Emara with cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A
man [Abbas Fares] was living happily in Alexandria with his wife and
daughters [Shadia and Magda], but after his wife died he found a love
letter among her papers giving him the idea she might have betrayed
him. As his doubts grew he began to think his two daughters might be
from another man. He began to treat them harshly and took up drinking
and gambling to forget. This caused him to lose all his money and his
factories. His daughters ran away from home. He then realized his
wife was innocent when he found a letter that had been written to his
wife's sister. He regretted his behavior and tried to repair the
damage he had done to his daughters and recover his lost fortune. He
succeeded in doing this and the family's wounds were healed.
Cast and crew: Ibrahim Emara, Magda, Choukoukou, Shukry Sarhan, Shadia, Abbas Fares, Bruno Salvi, Mary Queenie, Mohamed Mustafa Sami, Ferdoos Mohammed, Samiha Tawfiq, Zeinat Sedki, Mahmoud El-Sebai, Zaki al-Fayoumi, Zaki Ibrahim, Mohamed al-Dib, Shafik Noureddin, Mohsen Hassanein, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Lutfi al-Hakim, Mohamed Soleiman
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian rerelease poster designed to promote the
1959 105-minute Atef Salem black-and-white film We Are the
Students [ehna al-talamiza] based on a story by Tewfik Saleh and
Kamel Youssef with screenplay by Naguib Mahfouz, dialogue by Mohamed
Abu Youssef and cinematography by Bruno Salvi. The film was
originally distributed by the Dollar Film Company. Plot summary: The
three students Adel [Omar Sharif], Hassanein [Shukry Sarhan] and Samir
[Youssef Fakhr Eddine] all had problems. Adel loved his neighbor
Saham [Amal Farid], but her father refused to allow them to marry and
banned him from the house. Hassanein's uncle [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]
came to him from upper Egypt to emphasize the importance of rising up
against the ones who had killed his father. Samir was suffering from
his father's neglect. Samir and the maid Fatma [Ferdoos Mohammed] had
illicit relations and she became pregnant. Adel learned from the
dancer Gamalat [Taheya Cariocca] about Fatma's miscarriage. The three
robbed the bar where they drank to get the money to provide medical
treatment for the miscarriage but the money they stole did not cover
the costs and Fatma died. Gamalat screamed and the neighbors and the
police came. They were all tried and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of the top
100 Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Atef Salem, Shukry Sarhan, Omar Sharif, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Taheya Cariocca, Bruno Salvi, Tewfik Saleh, Amal Farid, Kamel Youssef, Mohamed Abu Youssef, Youssef Fakhreddine, Zizi El-Badrawy, Abdelaziz Ahmed, Tahani Rached, Kamal Hussein, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Ferdoos Mohammed, Fouad Shafik, Mimi Shakeeb, Nagwa Fouad
Pictured is a 35" x 41" three-piece Egyptian poster designed by Abdel
Aziz to promote the 1962 124-minute Kamal El Sheikh black-and-white
film Chased by the Dogs [al-liss wal-kelab] starring Shadia and
Shukry Sarhan based on a story by Naguib Mahfouz with screenplay by
Sabry Ezzat, dialogue by Ali El Zorkani and cinematography by Kamal
Korayem. Plot summary: Said Mahran [Shukry Sarhan] worked as a house
servant in a student's home. Because of his mother's illness he had
to steal a watch from a student. Raouf Alwan [Kamal al-Shennawi] got
involved, tried to save him and took him as a protege in crime.
Said became a big thief. His assistant Alish [Zein El-Ashmawy] informed
on him so he would be free to marry his wife Nabawiya [Salwa Mahmoud]. When Said
Mahran got out of prison his goal was to take revenge against Alish
and Nabawiya, but he killed some innocent people instead by blindly
shooting at window silhouettes, because Alish and Nabawiya had fled
their home. Said ran away and became a fugitive. Raouf, who had
become a famous journalist, denounced Said in newspaper articles,
turning public opinion against him. Said confessed what he had done
to his former lover Nour [Shadia] and lived in her house. He also
sought solace with a Sufi sheikh but found no relief. Although Nour
tried help him, the police found his hiding place and killed him on
the Mokattam Mountain during a chase.
According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of the top
100 Egyptian films. The title is literally translated as The Thief
and the Dogs.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Shadia, Shukry Sarhan, Kamal El Sheikh, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Fakher Fakher, Samir Sabri, Salah Mansour, Kamal Korayem, Ali El Zorkani, Sabry Ezzat, Salwa Mahmoud, Salah Jahine, Adly Kasseb, Zein El-Ashmawy, Nazim Shaarawy
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
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty, Ihsan and
Mohammad Abdel Aziz to promote the 1971 Kamal El Sheikh 102-minute
color film Something Within [shay'on fi sadri] starring Rushdy
Abaza based on a story by Ihsan Abdel Qudus with screenplay and
dialogue by Raafat El Meihy and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr.
Plot Summary: Hussein Basha Shaker [Rushdy Abaza] was climbing one of
the peaks of power in a violent struggle with the government. This
was in cooperation with the English imperialists and included an
effort to impose political influence on his peers. He tried to bring
Seyyed Mohamed Effendi under his influence but this was not possible
because of Mohamed Effendi's strong patriotism, and in any case the
effort ended when Mohamed Effendi died. However the lust for power
made Hussein Basha extend his effort to achieve influence and
domination to his family; his wife, his daughter and his neighbors
became the focus of his life and his chronic domineering drives.
Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Magda El-Khatib, Shukry Sarhan, Salah Mansour, Hassan Mustafa, Abdelhalim Nasr, Hoda Soltan, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Kamal El Sheikh, Yasmeen, Khaled Fahmy, Aziza Rached, Naima Al Soghayar, Mahmoud Rashad, Ali Ezzedine, Elhami Fayed, Ezzat Sherif
