This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1973 Houssam El-Din Mustafa
film Devils on Vacation based on story screenplay and dialogue
by Adly El-Mowaled and starring Mohamed Awad as Hamada. Plot summary:
While Hamada was in the Abu Qir Mediterranean resort area Awad
[Ghassan Mattar] hid some valuable diamonds in his camera. Hamada did
not realize this because he was too busy enjoying himself with his
friends Galal [Hassan Youssef] and Salah [Youssef Fakhr Eddine].
Awad's gang was pursuing them to get the diamonds; the police were
also monitoring the situation waiting for the right time to get
involved.
Cast and crew: Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Ibrahim Saleh, Adly
El-Mowaled, Mohamed Awad, Hassan Youssef, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Soheir
Ramzy, Lebleba, Ghassan Mattar, Kanaan Wasfy, Tewfik El Dekn, Ahmed
Abaza
This poster was designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1975 Tayseer
Aboud film The Shipyard of Violence with screenplay and dialogue
by Faisal Nada and Gamal Amar and based on a story by Faisal
Nada. Cinematography was by Aly Kheirollah. Plot summary: Rostam Bey
[Farid Shawqi] managed the affairs of a shipping company owned by him
and his late brother. His nephew Hassan [Samir Sabry] demanded his
share of the company, but the uncle refused to give it to him to keep
the fleet from being divided. However Hassan insisted on recovering
his father's rights and his share in the company. While he was trying
to get what was rightfully his he discovered Tawfiq [Tewfik El Dekn]
was manipulating the company's affairs. He tried to change his uncle's
mind but his uncle did not trust him, while Tawfiq was making the
distance between uncle and nephew even greater. When Hassan proposed
to his cousin Dalia [Nahed Sherif] because they were in love, Rostam
refused to allow the marriage and Tawfiq was making plans to kill
Hassan. They had a vicious fight. By the time Rostam Bey and his
daughter Dalia arrived Hassan had been unable to do any harm to his
detested rival; Tawfiq shot Dalia in the chest and she died in the
arms of her father and fiance. Only then did Rostam realize how wrong
he had been about his nephew.
Cast and crew: Nahed Sherif, Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Farid Shawqi,
Samir Sabry, Amina Rizk, Tewfik El Dekn, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Tayseer
Aboud, Faisal Nada, Gamal Amar, Aly Kheirollah, Ibrahim Qadry, Mohamed
Hamdi, Hamdi Sherif, Amira, Hala Sedki, Dina Abdullah, Ezza Kamal,
Luwais Youssef
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 Mohammed Abdel Aziz
and Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1967 Fatin Abdel Wahab
film When We Love [endma naheb] starring Nadia Lutfi and Rushdy
Abaza based on a story by Mohamed El-Tabei with screenplay and
dialogue by Hussein El-Mohandess and cinematography by Wadid Serri.
Plot summary: Ahmed [Rushdy Abaza] is a swimming champion who has the
attention of most of the beautiful women around him, but his choice
among them is Madiha [Nadia Lutfi], whom he plans to marry. Ahmed has
a heart attack and his physician advises him marriage will be
difficult and that he should avoid swimming. Ahmed tries to keep his
love away to avoid marrying her, but he cannot stand to see her in
pain, so he hides the truth from her; he pretends to be in a
relationship with another woman named Layla [Soheir El-Bably] to
discourage Madiha; Layla takes the relationship seriously and Madiha
is not deterred. When he goes back to swimming he forgets what the
doctor said and prepares for a championship race. At this point he
tells Madiha the truth about his illness. This shocks her and she
tries to keep him from doing the race. He insists and ends up
winning. However his weak heart stops as he is receiving his prize
and he dies with his trophy in his arms, leaving Madiha and Layla
shocked and brokenhearted.
This is a 23.25" x 35" stone lithograph movie poster by an unknown
artist for the 1958 Mahmoud Zulfikar film Me and My Heart based
on a story by Amin Yousseff Ghurab, screenplay by Mahmoud Zulfikar and
Amin Yousseff Ghurab and starring Mariam Fakhr
Eddine as Leila. Plot summary: A woman named Leila was
shocked when she saw her mother in her husband's [Hussein Kandil] arms
and ran out of the house in a rush. She was hit by a car and taken to
a hospital. She was shocked again when Dr. Mohsen at the hospital
[Imad Hamdi] gave her a job and then proposed marriage. Dr. Mohsen
knew she was from a prosperous family. He contacted her brother,
[Youssef Fakhr Eddine] who asked her husband to divorce her; he
refused and obtained a court order summoning her to a marital
obedience dwelling.
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1964
Ahmed Diaeddin black comedy An Abnormal Girl AKA fatat
shaza based on a story by Adly El-Mowalid and starring Showeikar
as the abnormal girl. Plot summary: The film depicts a picaresque
chain of events in which a girl [Showeikar] is modeling swimsuits and
then removed from the scene by her fiance [Ahmed Ramzy] because as a
model she attracts inappropriate attention from a group of men. They
then find themselves at a party at a villa where a physician [Youssef
Fakhreddine] attempts to enlist her services as a model for his
paintings, but this too is deemed inappropriate by her fiance, who
attempts to get the physician charged with lewd behavior with the help
of some compromising photos he has taken. The girl takes a job as a
cabaret waitress; while working there she learns her father [Mahmoud
El-Meliguy] is in prison. She goes to meet him when he is released,
but is surprised to find that his second wife is also there to meet
him. This is so traumatic for her that she attempts to kill herself
by jumping into the Nile, but is rescued by one of her father's men,
who takes her in a coma to her father's home. When she regains
consciousness she finds her father in the room with her and thinks he
is the one who has abducted her. She flees, breaks a leg while
falling off a balcony and is treated by the same painter/physician she
met at the party. She learns that this physician had not been guilty
of lewd intentions after all. However, when questioned and accused in
court the physician commits suicide. Her father attempts to take her
with him from the court but she refuses to go. She makes her way
through a maze of hallways at the courthouse and then disappears.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Diaeddin, Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Victor Antoun,
Rushdy Abaza, Ahmed Ramzy, Youssef Fakhreddine, Youssef Fakhr Eddine,
Shouweikar, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Tewfik El Dekn, Adly El-Mowalid, Adel
Adham, Mimi Shakeeb, Madiha Kamel, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Fatheya
Chahine, Mohammed Abaza
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammed Abdel Aziz
and Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1967 Fatin Abdel Wahab
film When We Love [endma naheb] starring Nadia Lutfi and Rushdy
Abaza based on a story by Mohamed El-Tabei with screenplay and
dialogue by Hussein El-Mohandess and cinematography by Wadid Serri.
Plot summary: Ahmed [Rushdy Abaza] is a swimming champion who has the
attention of most of the beautiful women around him, but his choice
among them is Madiha [Nadia Lutfi], whom he plans to marry. Ahmed has
a heart attack and his physician advises him marrigae will be
difficult and that he should avoid swimming. Ahmed tries to keep his
love away to avoid marrying her, but he cannot stand to see her in
pain, so he hides the truth from her; he pretends to be in a
relationship with another woman named Layla [Soheir El-Bably] to
discourage Madiha, but Layla takes the relationship seriously and
Madiha is not deterrred. When he goes back to swimming he forgets
about what the doctor said and prepares for a championship race. At
this point he tells Madiha the truth about his illness. This shocks
her and she tries to keep him from doing the race. He insists and
ends up winning. However his weak heart stops as he is receiving his
prize and he dies with his trophy in his arms, leaving Madiha and
Layla shocked and brokenhearted.
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 an undated Egyptian rerelease poster designed by an
unknown artist to promote the 1960 Essa Karama 109-minute
black-and-white film My Mother-in-Law Is an Angel [hamati
malak] starring Ismail Yasseen as Khamis based on a story by Essa
Karama with screenplay and dialogue by Abdel Fattah El-Said and
cinematography by Satrollah Karama. Plot summary: Khamis the
undertaker asked his girlfriend the maid Bar'u'a [Khayria Ahmed] to
tell him about it if there were deaths in any of the homes where she
worked so he could make the funeral arrangements. The maid told him
her boss Sabri [Youssef Fakhr Eddine] had died of grief because of
what his mother-in-law Fayeqa Hanem [Marie Munib] had done to him, and
his wife was in mourning. Khamis went to the home to make the
necessary funeral arrangements without knowing that Sabri was only
pretending to be dead on the advice of his friend Kamal [Kamal
Hussein] to get revenge against the mother-in-law and so he could find
out how much his wife Samia [Amal Farid] loved him. Sabri also tried
to frighten his mother-in-law by pretending to be his own ghost. In a
comedic mishap Khamis knocked the supposedly dead Sabri unconscious,
then put him in a cupboard and replaced it with another cupboard; when
he was accused of losing the corpse he tried to find the original
cupboard in a cinematic shell game with many identical antique
cupboards similar to the one shown on the poster, in a hotel and at a
furniture auction. When Samia tried to kill herself Sabri knew how
much she loved him so he stopped pretending to be dead and hurried
back home, where the mother-in-law went through a final scare scene
when he reappeared.
Cast and crew: Essa Karama, Ismail Yasseen, Abdel Fattah El-Sayed, Marie Munib, Amal Farid, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, Khayria Ahmed, Mohamed Nabih, Satrollah Karama, Abdel Fattah El-Said, Kamal Hussein, Al-Doktor Shadid, Bijou, Abdel Hamid Badawi, Adib al-Tarabolsi, Mary Ezzedine
