Movie Poster Collecting: Studio Paradiso

Sunday, June 5, 2016

The Exile سفر برلك Fairuz 1966 Italian Billboard

(1961) - (Fairuz) Italian billboard

This is a 79" x 169" Italian billboard designed by Studio Paradiso for the 1966 Henry Barakat musical The Exile [safar barlek] written by Assi and Mansour Rahbani and starring Fairuz as Adla. Plot summary: The film is set in 1914 when Lebanon was under Ottoman rule and Adla was living with her grandmother. She was awaiting the day of her engagement with her beloved Abdo [Ihsan Sadek]. When Abdo was out shopping for a wedding ring he was seized by Ottoman soldiers and impressed into forced labor chopping trees in the local forest to be taken for military use. Ottoman soldiers were occupying Adla's village of Ain El Joz, confiscating its wheat and exploiting its labor.

Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Studio Paradiso, Assi Rahbani, Mansour Rahbani, Fairuz, Elie Choueiri, Berj Fazlian, Salwa Haddad, Abdallah Homsy, Huda, Leila Karam, Mahmoud Mabsout, Joseph Nassif, Ihsan Sadek, Nasri Shamseddine, Salah Tizani

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Monday, May 2, 2016

The Thief of Baghdad (1961) - (Steve Reeves) Italian two-sheet

The Thief of Bagdad (1961) - (Steve Reeves) Italian two-sheet Poster

This is a 39" x 54" Italian two-sheet country-of-origin poster designed by Studio Paradiso for the 1961 Arthur Lubin and Bruno Vailati film The Thief of Baghdad based on a story by Augusto Frassinetti, Filippo Sanjust and Bruno Vailati and starring Steve Reeves as Karim. Plot summary: In the ancient days of the Arabian Nights the city of Baghdad is ruled by Sultan Ali Bejazeth [Antonio Battistella] but controlled on a daily basis by the evil Grand Vizier Ghamal [Daniele Vargas]. The poor people of the city are aided by Karim, the thief of Baghdad [Steve Reeves]. When Prince Osmer [Arturo Dominici] comes to the palace to seek the hand of Amina, [Georgia Moll] the Sultan's daughter, Karim ties him up so he can steal jewels from the courtiers while impersonating Prince Osmer. Meanwhile Ghamal is also interested in Amina and uses a love potion to try to make her fall in love with him.

Cast and crew: Studio Paradiso, Arthur Lubin, Bruno Vailati, Augusto Frassinetti, Filippo Sanjust, Steve Reeves, Georgia Moll, Arturo Dominici, Edy Vessel, Daniel Vargas, Antonio Battistella, Fanfulla, Giancarlo Zarfati, Gina Mascetti, Antonio Rosmino, Ignazio Dolce, Mohammed Agrebi, Joudi Mohammed Jamil, Georges Chamarat