This is a 67" x 104" 14-piece Egyptian billboard designed by Hussein
Fawzi of Studio Adly to promote the 1952 Henry Barakat musical
Don't Tell Anybody based an a story by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary,
screenplay by Henry Barakat and starring Farid Al Atrache as Wahid.
Plot summary: Wahid the musician loves a dancer named Wela [Samia
Gamal] and proposes marriage to her after her return from a business
trip. However while Wela is away Wahid marries a singer named Nousa
[Nour Al Hoda] as part of a ruse arranged by Nousa's uncle Ghazal,
[Stephan Rosti] who wants to marry Wela.
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Hussein Fawzi, Farid Al Atrache,
Samia Gamal, Nour Al Hoda, Stephan Rosti, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Omar
El-Hariri, Aida Kamel, Aziz Osman, Lola Sedki, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary
This is a 27" x39" Egyptian rereleae one-sheet poster for the 1938
Mohamed Abdel Gawad film The Life of Christ based on a
screenplay by Taha Hussein. Plot summary: The film follows the life
of Christ as told in the New Testament.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Taha Hussein, Aziza Helmy,
Ahmed Alam, Samiha Ayyoub, Abdel Alim Khattab, Salah Sarhan, Tewfik El
Dekn, Saad Ardash, Stephan Rosti, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Fawzia Ibrahim,
Afaf Shaker
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
This is a rare original Egyptian program for the 1949
musical She's Cute! [baladi wa khifa] written and directed by
Hussein Fawzi and starring Naima Akef as Hanouma. Plot summary:
Hanouma was engaged to Mahrous, [Saad Abdel Wahab] a musician. She
met Khaled Bey, [Abbas Fares] a film director, who introduced her to
the world of fame. She turned her back on the people in her old
neighborhood, but after that she was torn between the devil and a
good angel tugging at her from opposite directions; she finally went
back to Mahrous.
Cast and crew: Hussein Fawzi, Saad Abdel Wahab, Naima Akef, Abbas
Fares, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Lola Sedki, Stephan Rosti, Zeinat Sedki
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This is a 19.5" x 27.5" Egyptian fotobusta poster for the 1953 Essa
Karama film You Really Deserve It written by Gamal Hamdi and
starring Ismail Yasseen as Ismail. Plot summary: A rich man dies
leaving a large estate. His will states he has hidden the estate
somewhere in his mansion to be claimed in its entirety by whoever
finds it. His family lives only for finding the hidden treasure.
Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Essa Karama, Souraya Helmy, Lola
Sedki, Stephan Rosti, Elias Moadab, Hoda Shamseddin, Omar al Gizawy,
Abdelhamid Badawy, Aziza Badr, Saliha Qasin
This is an original 11.5" x 15.5" still photo on heavy stock paper of
Zahrat El-Ola appearing in the 1951 musical My Father Deceived Me
written and directed by Mahmoud Zulfikar and starring Sabah as Kawsar
Amin. Plot summary: Mahdouh [Mahmoud Zulfikar] is a painter of
symbolic art people are unable to understand. His fiancee Kawsar
stands by him and encourages him despite her father's objection to her
fiancee because he wants her to marry a wealthy man. Mamdouh has to
leave her and go to work with a nightclub owner [Stephan Rosti]. One
night he discovers the nightclub owner is about to marry Kawsar.
Cast and crew: Sabah, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Aziza Amir, Mohammed
Al-Bakkar, Tayeya Cariocca, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Zahrat El-Ola, Faten
Hamama, Mousen Hassanein, Negma Ibrahim, Stephan Rosti, Mohsen
Sarhan
The title of this famous film became the title of a television series
written by Magdy Saber and directed by Mohamed Zoheir in which Syrian
actress Safa Soltan plays the part of Laila Mourad. The story in the
film is overshadowed in the minds of many Egyptians by the life of
Laila Mourad herself, who was a non-Zionist Jew converted to Islam.
In the film Mourad plays the part of a runaway who is unwittingly
caught up in the intrigues of a crime ring.
Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Laila Mourad, Abdelhalim Nasr, Bechara Wakim, Zuzu Shakeeb, Farid Shawqi, Ismail Yasseen, Abdel Aziz Mahmoud, Hassan Fayek, Said Abu Bakr, Mokhtar Hussein, Stephan Rosti, Mohamed Choukoukou, Mohamed Salman, Abdel Aziz Mahmoud, Reyad El Kasabgy
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
This is an original-year 23.5" x 35" Egyptian poster designed by
Studio Gasour and Khatab and printed by al-Halaby printers of Cairo to
promote the 1950 Helmy Rafla film The Girl from Paris [bint
bariz] starring Taheya Cariocca based on story and dialogue by Abou
Seoud El-Ibiary with cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: The
manager of a theater where Adel [Mohammad Fawzi] worked as a musician
hired a French dancer to work with him; when a cable came to the
manager apologizing that the dancer would not be coming to Cairo, he
hired a local look-alike [Taheya Cariocca] whom he falsely presented
as the French dancer. Adel was not aware of the impersonation at
first but he fell in love with the substitute and married her even
after he realized what had happened.
Cast and crew: Muhammad Fawzi, Taheya Cariocca, Leila Fawzi, Helmy Rafla, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Aziz Osman, Samiha Tawfiq, Stephan Rosti, Elias Moadab, Abou Seoud El-Ibiary, Bruno Salvi, Sanaa Samih, Wedad Hamdy, Edmond Tuema, Abdel Moneim Ismail
This is an undated rerelease Egyptian poster made to promote the 1948
Anwar Wagdi 123-minute black-and-white film Amber [anbar]
starring Laila Mourad as Amber based on a story by Mohamed Kamel
Hassan with screenplay and dialogue by Anwar Wagdi and cinematography
by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Reshwan Basha [Abdel Waress Assar]
is on a sickbed surrounded by family members. They are treating him
quite harshly and refusing to give him water. They have his only
daughter Amber [Laila Mourad] locked in the mansion bedroom. They are
doing these things to force the Basha to tell them where he has hidden
his wealth, which they desire. Anwar [Anwar Wagdi], owner of the Gold
Star Casino, arrives with his attorney Hassan [Hassan Fayek]. While
they are waiting to see the Basha, Anwar suddenly hears a sweet
melodious voice coming from the bedroom. He looks through a panel in
the door and sees Amber singing. After a short conversation with her,
he finds himself surrounded by the members of the gang that wants
Reshwan Basha's wealth. He tells them that he and his attorney Hassan
have come to buy the clothing of Reshwan Basha's late wife. The gang
agrees to sell him the clothing. These garments include a dress Amber
once wore. After Anwar and Hassan leave the gang members take Amber
and her sick old nanny to the bedside of Reshwan Basha, who is about
to die. They leave Amber with her father according to his wishes.
The Basha tells his secret to his daughter while the men in the gang
are eavesdropping outside. The Basha tells his daughter Amber he
married her mother against the wishes of his family, who fought him
throughout the years of the marriage; he was sure they were going to
fight his daughter after he died. This unhappy situation had led him
to sell all of his property and use the money to buy jewelry. He put
the jewels in a chest and hid it. He drew a map to its location and
sewed the map into the collar of a black silk evening dress, the same
dress Amber used to wear when she sang, and the same one Anwar has
purchased. Amber collapses in tears as the members of the gang rush
to the Gold Star Casino, which is a westernized nightclub where the
orchestra, led by Anwar as its trumpet player, plays jazz standards
such as Benny Goodman's I Found a New Baby. These melodies are
mixed with performances by Laila Mourad and others of show tunes
composed by Mohamed Abdel Wahab, some in the style of Western jazz,
others with Egyptian scales and rhythms. Anwar tries to persuade
Horia [Zeinat Sedki], a woman singer in his troupe, to wear the dress
he has purchased, but she vehemently refuses. During the argument the
hidden map comes out of the collar of the dress; Anwar gives it to
Hassan, not knowing its value. After he learns what it is, he and
Amber evade the gang, eventually make their way back to the mansion
and find the hidden chest of jewels. This discovery is followed by a
fight with the covetous gang, then a gala celebratory marriage between
Anwar and Amber.
Cast and crew: Laila Mourad, Anwar Wagdi, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Abdelhalim Nasr, Mohamed Kamel Hassan, Bechara Wakim, Hassan Fayek, Said Abu Bakr, Ismail Yasseen, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Elias Moadab, Stephan Rosti, Farid Shawqi, Reyad El Kasabgy, Zeinat Sedki, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Aziz Osman, Abdel Waress Assar
Pictured art two first-printing Egyptian posters designed
by Studio Adly and Ahmed Fouad to promote the 1949 113-minute Ahmed Badrakhan
black-and-white film I Love You Only [ahebak enta] starring
Farid Al Atrache and Samia Gamal based on story and dialogue by
Youssef Gohar with screenplay by Ahmed Badrakhan and cinematography by
Ahmed Khorshed. Plot summary: Monir [Farid Al Atrache] was an
insignificant employee at the Telegraph Company, and an artist: a
musician who had never found a place for himself. He met a dancer
named Nadia [Samia Gamal] and they fell in love, but Monir soon became
jealous of Nadia's dancing teacher Ghazal [Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy] and
ended his relationship with her. He met a girl named Souraya [Zeinat
Sedki] who was about to commit suicide because her father [Hassan
Fayek] was forcing her to marry someone she did not love. Monir saved
her from doing that, but her fiance immediately disliked him. It
later became apparent Monir had no interest in marrying Souraya and he
went back to Nadia after his faith in her love was restored. His
father financed his production of a big musical, which was an
outstanding success.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Badrakhan, Farid Al Atrache, Samia Gamal, Ismail Yasseen, Hassan Fayek, Zeinat Sedki, Lola Sedki, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Ahmed Khorshed, Youssef Gohar, Stephan Rosti, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Souraya Helmy, Sanaa Samih, Mohamed al-Dib, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Ali Qadri
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
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy to promote
the 1950 Henry Barakat 125-minute black-and-white film The Shores
of Love [shati al-gharam] starring Laila Mourad based on story and
screenplay by Henry Barakat with dialogue by Ali Al-Zarkani and
Youssef Isa and cinematography by Abelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: The
Egyptian mediterranean resort of Mersa Matruh provides a picturesque
setting for this romantic drama. Adel [Hussein Sedki] was a young man
who did not know the meaning of love. He spent his time at
racetracks, dance halls and in the arms of prostitutes. While on a
beach vacation at Mersa Matruh, Adel fell in love with a schoolteacher
named Laila [Laila Mourad] and asked her father for permission to
marry her. The father agreed and Adel took Laila with him back to
Cairo. Adel's aunt and her husband were surprised by his sudden
marriage, because the aunt had been planning for him to marry her
daugher Mona so she could use Adel's wealth to lift her family out of
bankruptcy. On the other hand Adel's mistress Soheir [Taheya
Cariocca] had also been hoping to marry him. The aunt devised a
scheme to disrupt the marriage by accusing Laila of being unfaithful
and she succeeded with it because Adel believed her. He sent Laila
back to her father in Mersa Matruh. However Adel then learned his
aunt was just after his money and that the accusation was false, so he
went to Mersa Matruh to correct the mistake and bring his wife back to
Cairo again.
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Taheya Cariocca, Laila Mourad, Mohsen Sarhan, Hussein Sedki, Salah Mansour, Abdelhalim Nasr, Ali Al-Zarkani, Youssef Esa, Samiha Ayyoub, Stephan Rosti, Zaki Ibrahim, Gom'a Idris, Mimi Shakeeb, Mona, Edmond Tuema, Nahed Farid, Shafik Noureddin
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made to promote the 1964
83-minute Hassan El-Seify black-and-white film The Black
Briefcase [al-haqibet al-sawda] based on story and screenplay by
Ahmed El Mola with cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. Plot summary:
This is a complex crime thriller in which a briefcase filled with
stolen money is passed from hand to hand in an elaborate cinematic
shell game, until at the end the police arrest the one in possession
of it just before he boards a plane for Beirut.
Cast and crew: Hassan El-Seify, Shukry Sarhan, Naima Akef, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Stephan Rosti, Mohammed Tawfik, Kamal Salaheddin, Zein El-Ashmawy, Laila Sadeq, Amal Ramzy, Sami Sarhan, Ahmed El Mola, Mostafa Hassan, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra, Susie Khairi, Zoheir Sabri, Laila Yousri, Mahmoud Lotfi, Youssef Chaban, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Hussein Ismail, Abdelrahman Abou Zahra, Kawsar Ramzy, Mona Hussein, Said Orabi, Fifian
Shown here is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease poster designed by an
unknown artist for the 1956 139-minute Hassan El-Seify black-and-white
film Samara starring Taheya Cariocca based on story and
screenplay by Mahmoud Ismail with dialogue by Abdel Moneim El-Sebai
and cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: This is an Egyptian
noir style crime thriller, featuring a classy 1952 Packard
Mayfair convertible as an Egyptian gang's vehicle of choice for its
various criminal errands. Soltan [Mahmoud Ismail] was a big-time
smuggler who loved Samara [Taheya Cariocca]. He married her and drew
her into his criminal affairs; she became influential in the affairs
of his gang. When the police sent an escaped convict named Abu Shefa
[Mohsen Sarhan] into their midst as an informer, Samara fell in love
with him. After Samara flirted with him playfully at a nightclub,
Soltan's boss Wagih [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] also fell in love with
Samara, although she did not feel the same way about him. Wagih,
Samara and Soltan went to Suez together to receive a shipment of
smuggled hashish. The police followed them there and monitored their
activities. When the police were closing in later for a final arrest
in Cairo they shot Samara while she was in Abu Shefa's arms.
Cast and crew: Hassan El-Seify, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Seraj Munir, El Sayed Bedeir, Stephan Rosti, Taheya Cariocca, Mohsen Sarhan, Mahmoud Ismail, Mahmoud Nasr, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Reyad El Kasabgy, Mohammed Tawfik, Mohammed Dib, Shafik Noureddin, Gamalat Zayed, Fouad Gafaar, Hussein Ismail, Awatef Youssef, Mohsen Hassanein, Abdel Moneim El-Sebai
This is an original 24" x 35.5" Egyptian stone lithograph poster
designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1945 Togo Mizrahi 100-minute black-and-white
film Salama [سلامه] starring Om Kolthum based on a story by Ali Ahmed
Bakathir with dialogue and songs by Bayramn El Tounsi and
cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: This film is a
musical melodrama showcasing the singing of Om Kolsum. As the film
begins Salama [Om Kolsum] is shown passing in silence without
returning a greeting from a man sitting with a group of friends. When
asked why Salama did not return his greeting, the man tells her story.
Salama once lived with her companion Shawq as a maid in the home of
Sheikh Abu Wafa. She had a beautiful voice and developed songs during
the day and sang them at night, until Sheikh Abu Wafa got tired of her
songs and sold her and Shawq on the maid market. She was bought by a
libertine named ibn Soheir who commercialized the voice of his new
maid. Salama met and fell in love with a pious man named Sheikh Abdel
Rahman al-Qos [Yehia Chahine] who was ridiculed for his love of a maid
by the other Arabs. When ibn Soheir went bankrupt and sold his maids
and all his property, Abdel Rahman came forward to buy her and marry
her, but found that she had been summoned to the caliph's palace and
had then fled the palace. Abdel Rahman looked for her and became ill;
Salama came looking for him, only to find him just as he was breathing
his last. The scene returns to Salama, her silence and the man
relating the events of her life.
Soon after this film's release director Togo Mizrahi was accused of Zionism and forced out of Egypt. He died in exile in Italy. A brief biography is at cineplot here.
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Cast and crew: Om Kolsum, Yehia Chahine, Togo Mizrahi, Zouzou Nabil, Fouad Shafik, Abdel Waress Assar, Abdelhalim Nasr, Fakher Fakher, Stephan Rosti, Ali Ahmed Bakathir, Bayram El Tounsi, Yehia Chahine, Soad Zaki, Sharafnath, Ister Shatta, Mohamed Kamel, Rafia al-Baroudi, Abdel Qader al-Masiri
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian rerelease poster designed by an
unknown artist to promote the 1958 104-minute Hassan El-Seify
black-and-white film My Dark Darling [habibi al-asmar] starring
Taheya Cariocca and Samia Gamal based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Mahmoud Ismail and with cinematography by Abdel Aziz
Fahmy. Plot Summary: Samara [Samia Gamal] was a poor girl with an
abundance of femininity and beauty engaged to a mechanic named Ahmed
[Shukry Sarhan], but her love for dance drew her to her neighbor, a
dancer named Zakia [Taheya Cariocca]. She secretly went with Zakia to
the hall where she worked. She met a weathy man there named Rostom
[Youssef Wahby] who liked her and wanted to court her but she rejected
him; she later changed her mind and married him, deciding this was her
only way out of poverty; he worked on her appearance by buying her
luxurious clothing and jewelry. When Samara's fiance learned she had
unexpectly disappeared to marry the rich man, he became furious and
swore he would take revenge against her. Zakia tried to calm him by
ushering him into a relationship with an international trader [Mahmoud
El-Meliguy] who took him on as an associate in a shady trading
operation. In this operation Ahmed changed his name to Ibrahim and
ran into Rostom and Samara by chance in Lebanon. Samara's husband
also turned out to involved in criminal activity and when she saw
Ahmed again in Lebanon they were not getting along. She tried to
rekindle her relationship with Ahmed without success; Ahmed had found
a new life. Rostom's assistant Semsem [Stephan Rosti] tried to kill
Ahmed after Rostom has realized the nature of their former
relationship. Ahmed survived the murder attempt; then Zakia and Ahmed
began to form a relationship, but Zakia was killed by Semsem in a
domestic shootout in Rostom's sumptious home in Lebanon. When Samara
and Rostom returned to Cairo Rostom was shot by the police. Ahmed and
Samara were left alone together in Cairo at last to pick up the pieces
in their old relationship.
Cast and crew: Hassan El-Seify, Samia Gamal, Taheya Cariocca, Youssef Wahby, Shukry Sarhan, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Mahmoud Ismail, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Stephan Rosti, Shafik Noureddin, Souraya Fakhry, Mohammed Tawfik, Riri
