This is a 26.5" x 38" Egyptian poster for the 2003 Stephen Norrington
film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen based on a
screenplay by James Robinson and starring Sean Connery as Allan
Quatermain. Plot summary: Allan Quatermain, a fictional character
created by H. Rider Haggard, comes to life in this fantasy set in the
19th Century and leads a team of other legendary figures with special
powers in a fight against a madman known as The Fantom, who is
engaging in technological terror.
Cast and crew: Stephen Norrington, H. Rider Haggard, James
Robinson, Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran,
Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemying, Richard Roxburgh, Max
Ryan, Tom Goodman-Hill, David Hemmings, Terry O'Neill, Rudolf Pellar,
Robert Willox, Robert Orr
Shown here is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made to promote the 1959
104-minute El Sayed Bedeir black-and-white film She Lived for
Love ['ashat lil-hob] starring Zubaida Tharwat based on the
novel The Ivy Vine [shagaret al-lablab] by Mohamed Abdel Halim
Abdullah with dialogue by Salah Gowdet and cinematography by
Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Hosny [Kamal Al-Shennawi] was troubled
while he was growing up by his observations of marital infidelity among
his relatives. When he grew up and went to medical school he lived in
an apartment above the one inhabited by a woman named Zainab [Zubaida
Tharwat], fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. Then when
she showed an interest in other men he decided not to marry her after
all, thinking she was like the other women he had known in his youth.
Following advice from Zainab's sister Rashida [Laila Taher] and his
friend Khairat [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] he eventually changed his mind
and decided to marry her after all.
Cast and crew: El Sayed Bedeir, Zubaida Tharwat, Kamal Al-Shennawi,
Laila Taher, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Abdelhalim Nasr, Hermine, Mohamed
Abdel Halim Abdullah, Saleh Gowdet, Mary Ezzedine, Salwa Mahmoud,
Aziza Helmy, Abdallah Gheith, Wedad Hamdy, Kamal Hussein, Mohamed
Shawqi, Hussein Assar, Abdel Aziz Hamdy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Ghani for the
1972 Niazi Mostafa film The Return of the Most Dangerous Man in the
World based on a screenplay by Mohamed Anwar Abdullah and starring
Fouad El-Mohandes as Meftah/Mr. X. Plot summary: Mr. X, the world's
most dangerous gangster, returned so he could snatch a precious gem
owned by an Indian maharaja staying at a Cairo hotel. At the same time
an insurance company employee named Meftah was trying to convince the
maharaja of the need to insure the gem. There were many incidents
because of the strong resemblance between Meftah and Mr. X.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Abdel Ghani, Mohammad Anwar Abdullah,
Fouad El-Mohandes, Mervat Amin, Samir Sabri, Mahmoud Farid, Salah
Nazmi, Afaf Wagdi, Ali Gohar, Wafiq Fahmy, Kanaan Wasfy, Salama Elias
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 poster designed by Ragheb for a 1964 Hassan Al Imam film
based on the 1956 Naguib Mahfouz novel Between two Palaces
[bayn al-qasrayn] which was published as the first of the three novels
in his famous Cairo Trilogy. Plot Summary: In 1914 Fahmy
[Salah Kabil] joined a secret national society where Ibrahim [Ezzat El
Alaili] welcomed him. His brother Yassine [Abdel Moneim Ibrahim] was
in love with one of the dancers and the entire family trembled at
meeting his father Sayed Abdel Gawad, [Yehia Chahine] especially his
wife whom he had married 20 years earlier divorcing the mother of his
oldest son Yassine. Outside the home Yassine was corrupt and weak.
He owned a grocery store and had begun looking for a new lover to
replace the dancer Galia [Mimi Shakeeb] who had gotten old. He liked
Zubaida [Maha Sabry] and gave her everything she wanted. He would go
to her secretly and there Yassine discovered the truth about his
father. Sayed Abdel Gawad was a respected man in his own home. He
would eat alone while his wife and children would wait until he
finished before eating. His wife Amina, [Zouzou Nabil] his daughters
Aisha [Hala Fakher] and Khadija [Soheir El-Bably] and his sons Kamel,
Yassine and Fahmy stood in awe of their father. Yassine was a
secretary at the Benin school and Famy was a student at the Law
College. He wrote political publications, distributed them among
colleagues and hid them in the poultry coops on the roof of his home.
At the same time this was an opportunity to see his neighbor Mariam
[Zizi El-Badrawy]. He loved her but preferred to postpone the
relationship with her until after he completed his studies and the
British left Egypt. Kamal was a student in secondary school and
participated in many demonstrations. When Sayed Abdel Gawad learned
his former wife and Yassine's mother wanted to marry again he sent her
son to her to try to persuade her not to do so but he discovered she
had already married, quarreled with her and left. Yassine wanted a
few days with Zubaida the dancer. He told his family he was going to
Port Said and asked them not to leave the house. However Kamal
persuaded his mother to visit the shrine of Sayedna al-Hussein, but
she was injured on the way and despite the advice of her children not
to tell their father she told him the truth. He banished her and then
made peace with her again. Latifa [Souraya Fakhry] engaged her two
daughters to her sons. Yassine married Zeinab and Fahmy was killed
when the British soldiers shot at the demonstrators.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Yehia Chahine, Maha Sabry, Hassan Al
Imam, Mustafa Hassan, Salah Kabil, Zizi El-Badrawy, Wagdy El-Araby,
Nimat Mukhtar, Hala Fakher, Ezzat El Alaili, Soheir El-Barouni,
Mohamed Reda, Mimi Shakeeb, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim,
Zouzou Nabil, Amal Zayed, Soheir El-Bably, Badr El Den Gamgome, Abbas
El Daly, Adib El Tarabolsy, Mounir El Touni, Ibrahim El-Shamy, Metwaee
Elweiss, Ibrahim Heshmat
This is an Egyptian rerelease poster by an unknown artist for the 1967
Luis Bunuel film Belle de Jour based on the 1928 novel of the
same title by Joseph Kessel and starring Catherine Deneuve as Severine
Serizy. Plot summary: Severine is married to a doctor whom she loves
dearly, but she cannot be intimate with him. She becomes a prostitute
while remaining chaste in her marriage.
Cast and crew: Catherine Deneuve, Luis Bunuel, Jean Sorel, Michel
Piccoli, Genevieve Page, Pierre Clementi, Francoise Fabian, Macha
Meril, Muni, Maria Latour, Claude Cerval, Michel Charrel, Iska Khan,
Bernard Musson, Marcel Charvey, Francoise Maistre
This is an Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy and Mohammed Abdel
Aziz for the 1968 Mahmoud Zulfikar film The Beauty of Love
written by Mohamed Abu Youssef and starring Rushdy Abaza as Ahmed
Ragab. Plot summary: A young girl married a writer in whose eyes she
often saw the ideas and views contained in his writing. She married
him even though the opposite of what appeared in his writing quickly
became evident in her husband's behavior. She decided to leave him
without returning and fled the home with him chasing her. While she
was running away she met an attractive boy. They fell in love and
decided to marry as soon as she obtained a divorce from her husband.
The boy went on a mission abroad and he even summoned her after the
divorce. While she was waiting for him at the airport the aircraft
exploded just before landing and all the passengers were killed.
