This is a 27" x39" undated rerelease Egyptian one-sheet designed by
Moaty for the 1955 Gregory Ratoff film Abdulla the Great AKA Abdullah's Harem based
on the Ismet Regeila novel My Kingdom for a Woman and starring
Gregory Ratoff as Abdulla. Plot summary: As absolute ruler of a
Middle Eastern country, Abdulla lives in luxury surrounded by
beautiful women. The arrival of a beautiful English model named
Ronnie [Kay Kendall] is a distraction that causes Abdulla to overlook
the widespread discontent among his subjects.
Cast and crew: Gregory Ratoff, Marina Berti, Sydney Chaplin, Mary
Costes, Alexander D'Arcy, Kay Kendall, Marti Stevens, Boris Ingster,
Ismet Regeila, George St. George, Dickie Moore
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Aziz and Wahib
Fahmy for the 1975 Hussein Kamal film Love in the Rain based on
a story by Naguib Mahfouz, screenplay and dialogue by Mamdouh El
Leithy and starring Mervat Amin. Plot summary: Hassan the
cinematographer opened his home to many different segments of society.
It served both as a nightclub and a place of debauchery; he kept
both functions going in earnest. He therefore needed to find a home
for this purpose, and this is what Aliat and Senia did for him because
they needed money. There was a close relationship between Aliat and
Senia. Senia's brother Marzouq courted Aliat and the officer Ibrahim
courted Senia. The film director Mohamed Reshwan met Marzouq and
offered him work opposite the film star Fetna, who found Marzouq to be
the right man for her and began flirting with him. Meanwhile the
director Adel thought he deserved the artist Fetna, but she quickly
married Marzouq after his courtship of Aliat fell apart, who had gone
back to Hassan's house to engage in lewd behavior. Adel decided to
take revenge against Marzouq and Fetna and he disfigured Marzouq's
face. Life became impossible between Marzouq and Fetna. He divorced
her and went back to Aliat, whom he married after forgiving her for
her past.
Cast and crew: Magda El-Khatib, Hayat Kandeel, Hamdy Ahmed, Samira
Mohsen, Ahmed Al-Gezeiry, Mervat Amin, Adel Adham, Ahmed Ramzy, Imad
Hamdi, Hussein Kamal, Naguib Mahfouz, Kamal Karim, Mahmoud Kabil,
Mohamed Wafik, Kamal Korayem, Mamdouh El Leithy, Salah Nazmi, Hamdy
Ahmed
This is a 27" x39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty for the 1981
See-Yuen Ng film Game of Death II written by Tin Shing Hoh and
Chuo-Lun Ting and starring Bruce Lee as Billy Lo. Plot summary: Billy
Lo is killed while investigating the death of his friend Chin Ku
[Hwang Jang Lee]. Lo's younger brother Bobby [Kim Tai Chung] follows
up in Japan with an investigation of both deaths. Bobby befriends the
master of the Castle of Death, a man named Lewis [Roy Horan]. Then
Lewis is also murdered and Bobby Lo must investigate a third killing.
Cast and crew: Bruce Lee, Tai Chung Kim, Jang Lee Hwang, Roy Horan,
Roy Chiao, Casanova Wong, See-Yuen Ng, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Corey Yuen,
Tin Shing Hoh, Chuo-Lun Ting, Hoy Sang Lee, Cheng-Wu Yang, Hou Li-Jen,
Miranda Austin, To Wai-Woo
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1963 Ahmed Diaeddin film Without an Appointment based on story,
screenplay and dialogue by Yousef Eisa and starring Soad Hosny as
Salwa. Plot summary: Salwa was in love with Wahid [Mohamed Soltan]
but no one knew, and he did not reciprocrate her feelings because he
loved Nadia [Nadia Lutfi]. At the same time Kamal [Moharram Fouad] was
also in love with Nadia and nobody knew about that either. He did not
know his friend Wahid also loved Nadia. When Kamal found out about
this he decided to get out of the way.
Cast and crew: Ahmed Diaeddin, Soad Hosny, Nadia Lutfi, Muharram
Fouad, Mohamed Sultan, Fakher Fakher, Zouzou Mady, Sair Sabri, Khayria
Ahmed, Salah Jahine, Mimi Shakeeb, Victor Antoun, Yousef Eisa
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the
1946 Wali Eddine Sameh film The Lady's Puppet starring Naguib
Al Rihani based on the 1898 Pierre Louys novel The Devil Is a
Woman AKA La Femme et le pantin, story by Naguib Al Rihani
and Badei Khayri and starring Naguib Al Rihani as Hassan. Plot
summary: In Cairo during the World War II a poor boy named Hassan
marries a runaway named Laaba, [Taheya Cariocca] who later becomes a
cinema performer; she leaves Hassan for another man, then agrees to
marry the other man while in Lebanon without telling him of her
existing marriage to Hassan.
Cast and crew: Wali Eddine Sameh, Naguib Al Rihani, Badei Khayri,
Pierre Louys, Taheya Cariocca, Suleiman Naguib, Aziz Osman, Bechara
Wakim, Hassan Fayek, Marie Munib, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Badei Khayri,
Mustafa Hassan
This is a 23.5" x 35" Egyptian poster designed by
an unknown artist for the 1961 Atef Salem film A Woman's Secret
based on a story by Rufail Salem, screenplay and dialogue by Yousef
Eisa and starring Hoda Soltan as Fathia. Plot summary: A man decided
he had had enough of the monotony of married life and tried to
establish a new relationship with a dancer. When she visited him at
his home one day the dancer found he had been murdered. During the
investigation the police discovered the dancer had a brother who was
paying her expenses and was now defending her and trying to name the
real murderer.
Cast and crew: Yousef Eisa, Rufail Salem, Hoda Soltan, Imad Hamdi,
Salah Zulfikar, Atef Salem, Omar El-Hariri, Nagwa Fouad, Bruno
Salvi, Aida Halal
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty for an
undated rerelease of the 1964 Michele Lupo film Seven Slaves
against Rome AKA Seven Slaves against the World AKA Gli
schiavi piu forti del mondo written by Michele Lupo and Roberto
Gianviti and starring Gordon Mitchell as Balisten. Plot summary: In
the old Roman empire slaves are being used to build an aqueduct out on
the desert fringes. In Rome this work is seen as a task for
undesirables who have fallen out of favor and the delegation of its
management to Tribune Marcus Aulus [Roger Browne] is a form of
punishment.
Cast and crew: Michele Lupo, Roberto Gianviti, Roger Browne,
Calisto Calisti, Alfio Caltabiano, Pietro Ceccarelli, Arnaldo
Fabrizio, Scilla Gabel, Gordon Mitchell, Germano Longo, Nello
Pazzafini
