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
This is a 35" x 25.5" Egyptian stone litho one-sheet designed by
Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1953 Henry Barakat film The Rule of
Time [hukm al-zaman] based on a screenplay and dialogue by Youssef
Esa and starring Imad Hamdi as Adel. Plot summary: Engineer Adel
returns to Cairo from Europe looking for Wedad [Nour Al Hoda], the
woman he wants to marry.
Cast and crew: Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Giulio De Luca, Imad Hamdi, Henry Barakat, Magda, Nour Al Hoda, Zuzu Shakeeb, Seraj Munir, Mohammed Al-Bakkar, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Rahim al-Zerkani, Omar al-Hariri, Samiha Tawfik
Pictured is a 36" x 46.5" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Hassan
Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1951 Omar Gomai film My Children
[awladi] starring Zaki Rostom based on a story by Omar Gomai with
cinematography by Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary: A woman dies
leaving her husband [Zaki Rostom (1903-1972)] with three daughters and nobody to
help with their upbringing other than a pretty maid; the maid tries to
use her charms to make the bereaved husband forget about his
sorrow. The maid's husband realizes his wife is interested in her
employer and divorces her. The maid then marries the bereaved husband
after telling him she iss pregnant with his child. The children
resent the marriage and one of the daughters kills the new wife.
Cast and crew: Omar Gomai, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Rushdy Abaza, Zaki Rostom, Shadia, Zuzu Shakeeb, Madiha Yousri, Zeinab Sedki, Kamal Hussein, Mohammad Tawfiq, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Gamalat Zayed, Beba Ibrahim, Aziza Helmy, Abdel Moneim Basyouni
These are two original-year Egyptian promotional posters designed by
Anwari for the 125-minute 1947 black-and-white Ahmed Badrakhan
film Fatmah starring Om Kolsum based on a story by Mustafa Amin
with cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Fatmah (Om
Kolsum), a polite young nurse, was given the task of overseeing a
pasha's treatment. When the pasha's brother Fathy (Anwar Wagdy) saw
her he was taken by her beauty and the sweetness of her voice when she
sang. He fell in love with her and tried to attract her in various
ways but failed to arouse any interest. While he had a fierce desire
for her, he did not find any way other than marriage, so he actually
took her under marriage contract as a common law wife and had a
honeymoon with her in Alexandria. He returned with her, but they had
to live together in her humble home in one of the neighborhoods in
view of his father's anger about what had happened. Fathy could not
tolerate living there or interacting with the people of that
neighborhood, and he left after he was fed up with it. Chance led him
to the villa of Mervat (Mimi Shakeeb), an aristocratic girl. He made
preparations to marry her also because he had already promised her he
would do that. Fathy found that this was the way to please his father
the pasha, and he returned to his father's mansion forgetting his wife
the nurse. His father asked him to get the marriage paper from this
nurse, which he did but only after Fatmah had made a photocopy of it.
Fathy abandoned Fatmah but she had become pregnant by him and had his
child, although he denied it. The people in the neighborhood met and
decided to raise the issue of Fathy. In the midst of these events
Fathy told his wife Mervat about the situation and then went to
Fatmah's house to ask her forgiveness. He was struck by an automobile
on the way, just when he had come to his senses and decided to return
to Fatmah with regret for what he had done and acknowledge that he was
the father of her son.
Cast and crew: Mustafa Amin, Om Kolsum, Suleiman Naguib, Zuzu Shakeeb, Anwar Wagdi, Saneya Shawky, Ahmed Badrakhan, Abdelhalim Nasr< Mimi Shakeeb, Hassan Fayek, Ferdoos Mohammad
This film was an important milestone in the career of Adel Imam, best known in the West for his starring role in the 2006 Marwan Hamed film The Yacoubian Building [emaret ya'qubian]. This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian film poster designed by
Moaty to promote the 1979 128-minute Ahmed Fouad color film Ragab
on a Hot Tin Roof [ragab fou' safeeh sakhen] starring Adel Imam
based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ebrahim Maher with
cinematography by Essam Farid. Plot summary: The people in Ragab's
[Adel Imam] village pooled their money to buy a plow and sent him to
Cairo to buy it. As soon as he got there he met Bolbol, [Sa'eed
Saleh] a professional thief, who stole the money the people of Ragab's
village had given him, then disappeared in the Cairo crowds. Ragab
went looking for him. He ended up in a nightclub, where he met
Bobbol's friend Eglal [Nahed Sherif], the owner of a nighclub. Bolbol
had seen Ragab and fled with the money. When Ragab found him he
claimed to have lost all the money gambling. Ragab tried to find
work. When that failed he asked Bolbol to teach him how to gamble.
After he learned how to do this he won a lot of money, but one of the
ones who lost money to him went after him with the intent of killing
him; Bolbol tried to defend Ragab and suffered a few stab wounds. The
police intervened and arrested all of them. Ragab did not return to
his village. After his release he took a job in Cairo looking for
newcomers from rural areas and upper Egypt so he could swindle them.
In Egypt Today September 2004 Sherif Awad said of this film:
"Comedian Adel Imam made cinema history with Ragab Fouk Safeeh Sakhen
([Ragab on a Hot Tin Roof], 1979). The film broke all previous
box-office records and spent 37 weeks in theaters. Throughout the past
two decades, he has been the uncontested king of the box office,
churning out roles in every conceivable genre. Now in his fifties,
Imam is still going strong."
Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Nahed Sherif, Sa'eed Saleh, Wahid Seif, Zuzu Shakeeb, Ahmed Fouad, Essam Farid, Mimi Gamal, Aly El Cherif, Soad Hussein, Nahed Gabr, George Sidhum, Madhar Abol Naga, Seif Allah Mokhtar, Hafez Amin, Essam Farid, Maher Ibrahim, Farouk Falawkas, Samie Al-Adel, Amima Salim, Ahmed Amer, Sha'ban Taha, Mahmoud al-Eraqi, Mona Abdullah, Fawzi Ibrahim
This is is a 27" x 39" stone lithograph poster designed by an unknown
artist to promote the 1945 102-minute Niazi Mostafa black-and-white
film Rabha starring Kouka based on a story by Mahmoud Taymoor
with screenplay by Niazi Mostafa, dialogue by Bayram El Tounsi and
cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Rabha, a pretty
girl from a Bedouin tribe, came to the aid of a boy from the city who
was injured when he fell off his galloping horse on a hunting trip, and
the two of them fell in love. Her tribe had made arrangements for her
to marry her cousin, but on the night she was supposed to do that
she eloped with the city boy. Rabha could not enjoy her married life
because she was afraid of her tribe and knew they would not forgive
her for eloping. However when the tribe learned the city boy was also
of Bedouin extraction they forgot about what had happened and
celebrated the marriage.
Cast and crew: Kouka, Niazi Mostafa, Badr Lama, Seraj Munir, Abbas Fares, Bechara Wakim, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Negma Ibrahim, Mohammed Al Kahlawi, Ahmed Abdelhalim, Zuzu Shakeeb, Soraya Fakhry, Bayram El Tounsi, Mahmoud Taymoor, Tawfiq al-Mardanli, Fouad al-Rahidi, Amal Hussein, Mohamed Kamela
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian film poster designed by Mohammad Abdel
Aziz and Ahmed Fouad to promote the 1970 Ahmed Diaeddin 89-minute
black-and-white film The Mirror [al-maraya] starring Naglaa
Fathy as Karima based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Mohieddin
Aref with cinematography by Adel Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Karim's
[Abdel Moneim Madbouly] first daughter Karima had breathtaking beauty.
She loved a boy named Kamal [Samir Sabri] whose wealth she envied, but
at the same time she was madly in love with her cousin, an ambitious
engineer named Ahmad [Nour El-Sherif]. Meanwhile her sister Hoda's
life had long been limited since her cousin had been chosen as a
husband and they loved each other. The mother pushed her daughter
Karima towards Kamal, but Karima's heart was with Ahmad. In light of
Karima's ambivalence Ahmad saw no way out other than a relationship
with his colleague Safa, while Kamal distanced himself from Karima and
married a rich girl. Karima had fallen victim to her own ambivalence.
Meanwhile her sister Hoda introduced her to an Arabic language teacher
at the school where she worked, professor Younes, and tried to present
her to him as a bride, but he quickly discovered she was worthless
because she did not know how to do anything around the house. She was
so interested in clothing and decorations that she became sick, and in
the efforts by the physician, the sister, her husband and the father
to heal Karima, Hamdi sent a letter to summon Ahmad to come and cure
Karima, but she could not accept his marriage. She tried to separate
them but failed and became disgusted with her own life. She rejected
her mother's advice about making a new commitment to the completion of
her studies.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Diaeddin, Naglaa Fathy, Mohammad Abdel Aziz,
Ahmed Fouad, Nour El-Sherif, Adel Imam, Zizi Mustafa, Zuzu Shakeeb,
Amal Ramzy, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Mimi Shakeeb,
Adel Abdel Azim, Samir Sabri, Ibrahim Saafan, Malek Sokar, Taghrid
al-Bashbishi, Ahmed Abu Abih, Ibrahim Nasr, Nagi Sayed, Mohieddin
Aref, Salah al-Eskanderani
This is a picture of an undated Egyptian rerelease poster printed by
the Arab Cinema Printers to promote the 1950 103-minute Hassan Al Imam
black-and-white film Law of the Jungle [hokm al-'awi] starring
Farid Shawqi based on a screenplay by Hassan Al Imam with dialogue by
El Sayed Bedeir. Cinematography was by Francois Farkas; the film was
produced by the Nehas Film Company. Plot summary: Medhat Abel Nabi
was an engineer who owned a factory with his partner Qasem. The two
of them were opposites ethically. Qasem did not know the meaning of
friendship and he preferred the company to Medhat, who had become its
sole owner. Qasem lived for pleasure and lost all his money gambling.
After that he met a rich man and deluded him about a project that
would supposedly make an enormous amount of money after
implementation, but the wealthy man learned the truth about Qasem and
that he was really just a swindler. He refused the project Qasem was
offering. They quarreled and the rich man was killed. Qasem was
accused of the crime but in a deception he pinned the accusation on
Medhat, who was then arrested and condemned to death. However in the
end the truth was discovered, Medhat was found innocent and the real
perpetrator received his punishment.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Mohsen Sarhan, Zuzu Shakeeb, Farid Shawqi, Hoda Soltan, Zouzou Mady, Abbas Fares, Seraj Munir, Abdel Waress Assar, El Sayed Bedeir, Francois Farkas, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Souraya Helmy, Soheir Fakhry, Zaki Ibrahim, Zakia Ibrahim, Abdel Rahim al-Zorqani, Zouzou Nabil, Abdel Alim Khattab, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Sanaa Gamil
This is a first printing of a 45" x 34.5" Egyptian poster designed by
Ahmed Fouad and printed by Raghaeb Printers to promote the 1944
110-minute black-and-white Niazi Mostafa film Hababa starring
Aziza Amir based on a screenplay by Niazi Mostafa with story and
dialogue by Ahmed Fathy and cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. The
film was produced and distributed by Studio Masr. Plot summary:
Prince Zayed fell in love with his neighbor Hababa who sang like an
angel, but there were jealous neighbors who wanted to separate them
and they succeeding in banishing Hababa from the palace. Prince Zayed
became caliph and increased his power. He discovered he could not
live without Hababa and went looking for her. He finally found her
and the lovers were reunited, but his love for Hababa created social
and political problems for him. Hababa realized this and decided to
get out of his life. She committed suicide with poison and the prince
lived in sorrow for his lost love for the rest of his life.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Mostafa Hassan, Aziza Amir, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Seram Munir, Amina Sherif, Ferdoos Hassan, Yahya Chahine, Ferdoos Mohammed, Abdel Aziz Ahmed, Zuzu Shakeeb
Art by Ahmed Fouad, printed in Cairo by Arabic Cinema Printers. This film is on film critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films. It tells the story of Zuzu
(Soad Hosny), a member of a family of entertainers and
dancers who is attending a university. Zuzu encounters
difficult conflicts when she is forced to confront Egyptian
society's stubborn prejudice against those who make a
living in the entertainment business.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Hassan Al Imam, Taheya Cariocca, Hussein Fahmy, Shafik Galal, Salah Jahine, Sameer Ghanem, Nabila El Sayed, Abdelhalim Nasr, Abbas Fares, Zuzu Shakeeb, Ali Gohar, Mustafa Metwalli, Wahid Seif, Mohammad Metwalli, Mohsen Nasr, Nadia Zaghloul, Salah Jahine
This Egyptian poster designed by Gasour based on the cover art by American artist Robert A. Maguire (1921-2005) for the 1955 Lionel White Signet paperback The Killing was used to promote the 1971
Hassan Al Imam 102-minute black-and-white film Forbidden Love
[الحب المحرم al-hob al-moharram], adapted by Zeinab Hassan Al Imam from the Pierre
Benoit novella Alberta with screenplay and dialogue by Faisal
Nada, cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh and starring Madiha Yousri as
Nahed. Plot summary: For more than 20 years the widow Elham educated
her daughter and attended to the affairs of the home she inherited
from her husband so her daughter Nahed could graduate. Nahed worked
in Alexandria while her mother tried to comfort her and made
arrangements for her to stay with somone close to her, the mother
[Zuzu Shakeeb] of Kamal [Samir Sabri], who lived with her children
Kamal and Zizi. At work Nahed made the acquaintance of her colleague
Adham [Shukry Sarhan], one of Kamal's friends. Adham and Nahed had a
mutual attraction that quickly turned to love. Nahed told her mother
about it. However Adham became ill and remained at home with the
mother and her daughter looking after him until he regained his
health. Nahed went back to work while Adham remained with his
mother. During that time the two hearts remained united, but while
waiting for the marriage Nahed became distracted with her dreams and
nightmares while driving, had a collision and was killed. Adham tried
to comfort Elham but she was disconsolate. In the village Elham was
surprised to hear the people whispering that Adham had killed Nadia to
get her money. Elham reported Adham and he was was arrested on the
night of his marriage to Kamal's sister Zizi. He confessed to his
crimes.
Cast and crew: Hassan Al Imam, Madiha Yousri, Shukry Sarhan, Mervat Amin, Samir Sabri, Soheir Fakhry, Zuzu Shakeeb, Ibrahim Saleh, Faisal Nada, Zeinab Hassan Al Imam, Pierre Benoit, Hussein Ismail, Ahmed Al-Adl, Nawal al-Saghira, Omar Khairat
This is an Egyptian rerelease promotional poster designed by Wahib
Fahmy for the 125-minute 1947 black-and-white Ahmed Badrakhan film
Fatmah starring Om Kolsum based on a story by Mustafa Amin with
cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Fatmah (Om Kolsum), a
polite young nurse, was given the task of overseeing a pasha's
treatment. When the pasha's brother Fathy (Anwar Wagdy) saw her he
was taken by her beauty and the sweetness of her voice when she sang.
He fell in love with her and tried to attract her in various ways but
failed to arouse any interest. While he had a fierce desire for her,
he did not find any way other than marriage, so he actually took her
under marriage contract as a common law wife and had a honeymoon with
her in Alexandria. He returned with her, but they had to live together
in her humble home in one of the neighborhoods in view of his father's
anger about what had happened. Fathy could not tolerate living there
or interacting with the people of that neighborhood, and he left after
he was fed up with it. Chance led him to the villa of Mervat (Zuzu
Shakeeb), an aristocratic girl. He made preparations to marry her
also because he had already promised her he would do that. Fathy
found that this was the way to please his father the pasha, and he
returned to his father's mansion forgetting his wife the nurse. His
father asked him to get the marriage paper from this nurse and he
finally succeeded in doing so, but only after Fatmah had made a
photocopy of it. Fathy abandoned Fatmah but she had become pregnant
by him and had his child, although he denied it. The people in the
neighborhood met and decided to raise the issue of Fathy. In the
midst of these events Fathy adjusted his wife Mervat to the situation
and hurried to Fatmah's house to ask her forgiveness. He was struck
by an automobile on the way, just when he had awakened to return to
Fatmah with regret for what he had done and acknowledge his
relationship to her son.
Cast and crew: Mustafa Amin, Om Kolsum, Suleiman Naguib, Zuzu Shakeeb, Anwar Wagdi, Saneya Shawky, Ahmed Badrakhan, Abdelhalim Nasr, Mimi Shakeeb, Hassan Fayek, Ferdoos Mohammad
This is the rare original style poster for the 1972 Hassan Al Imam film Take Care of Zuzu starring Soad Hosny. This film is on Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films. It tells the story of Zuzu (Soad Hosny), a member of a family of entertainers and dancers who is studying at a university. Zuzu encounters difficult conflicts when she is forced to confront society's stubborn prejudice against those who make their living in the entertainment business.
