This is a 14" x 36" US insert poster for the 1951 Frederick De
Cordova film Little Egypt written by Oscar Brodney and Doris
Gilbert and starring Rhonda Fleming as Izora AKA Little Egypt. Plot
summary: During the 1893 Chicago Exposition Izora and her accomplice
Wayne Cravat [Mark Stevens] try to swindle Chicago tycoon Cyrus
Graydon [Minor Watson] out of a million dollars.
Cast and crew: Frederick De Cordova, Rhonda Fleming, Mark Stevens,
Nancy Guild, Charles Drake, Tom D'Andrea, Minor Watson, Steven Geray,
Verna Felton, John Litel, Kathryn Givney, Fritz Feld, Dan Riss, Jack
George, Edward Clark, John Gallaudet
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1961 Allan David and
William J. Hole film Twist all Night AKA The Continental Twist
written by Berni Gould and starring Louis Prima as Louis
Evans. Plot summary: Louis Evans has a popular "twist club" that is
being undermined by a mercenary"twist gang" whose members are paid to take up
space without spending any money.
Cast and crew: Allan David, William J. Hole Jr., Berni Gould, June
Wilkinson, Louis Prima, Sam Butera, The Witnesses, Gertrude Michael,
David Whorf, Hal Torey, Ty Perry, Fred Sherman, Dick Winslow, Gil
Frye, Jim Lounsbury, Tom Mathews, Joe Cavalier, Parisian Twisters,
Manhattan Twisters
Pictured is an Egyptian black-and-white still showing Ismail
Yasseen as Ostaz Charlie from the 1952 Anwar Wagdi film Drop of Dew
[qatr al-neda] starring Shadia as Drop of Dew based on a story
by Anwar Wagdi, with screenplay by Anwar Wagdi, dialogue and songs by
Abou Seoud El-Ibiary and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot summary:
The unknown artist Wahid (Anwar Wagdi) married his colleague the
unknown artist Drop of Dew (Shadia) and they set out to create work
for themselves that was worthy of their talents. Time passed and this
was not achieved. Wahid decided to play a trick to make himself into a
famous person; he claimed he had killed his wife. His trick succeeded
and he acquired great fame. A lady's body was found; the police
thought it was his wife's body and that he was really the
murderer. Wahid said his wife had not been killed and that she was
alive somewhere. His wife had been in an automobile accident which
caused memory loss. Wahid was sentenced to death. The lawyer tried to
restore the wife's memory quickly to save Wahid from the gallows; he
succeeded in doing this at the last moment and Wahid was accordingly
released. His fame began there; then there was a quick change in
his theater contracts and the trick enabled him to achieve the kind of
renown he had never imagined.
Cast and crew: Anwar Wagdi, Shadia, Ismail Yasseen, Saraj Munir,
Wahid Farid, Ibrahim Emara, Zeinat Sedki, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Abou
Seoud El-Ibiary, Elias Moadab, Sayed Soliman, Reyad al-Kasabgi, Salah
Mansour, Abdel Qader al-Masiri, Ahmed Darwish
This is a 27" x 40" Lebanese one-sheet for the 1984 James Cameron
film The Terminator starring Arnold Schwarzegger as the
Terminator. Plot summary: The Terminator is a cyborg sent back from
the future with the job of murdering Sarah Connor [Linda Hamilton].
Cast and crew: James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn,
Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen, Bess Motta, Earl Boen,
Rick Rossovich, Dick Miller, Shawn Schepps, Bruce M. Kerner, Franco
Columbu, Bill Paxton, Brad Rearden, Brian Thompson
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Marcel for the 1951
Nitin Bose musical Deedar written by Azm Bazidpuri and starring
Nargis as Mala. Plot summary: Shamu [Dilip Kumar] and Mala [Nargis]
are childhood sweethearts who love to go riding and singing on a
horse. One day Mala is injured when they are thrown from the horse;
Mala's angry father banishes Shamu from the household. Shamu and his
mother are obliged to move; after the death of his mother Shamu loses
his sight in a sandstorm. From then on Shamu makes a livelihood as a
street singer accompanying himself on a harmonium, but he never
forgets Mala and always longs to be with her again.
Pictured here is a five-foot by ten-foot six-sheet Egyptian billboard
poster designed by Abdel Rahman to promote the 1951 161-minute Henry
Barakat black-and-white film The Count of Monte Cristo [amir
al-enteqam] based on the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas with screenplay
and adaptation by Henry Barakat, dialogue by Youssef Gohar and Youssef
Esa and cinematograpny by Giulio De Luca. Plot summary: Hassan
Al-Helali [Anwar Wagdi] was a noble sailor who was captured on his
wedding night in a plot by his four enemies [Farid Shawqi, Seraj
Munir, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Hussein Riad] and thrown into prison
without trial or accusation; he remained in prison for many years. In
prison he met an old man named Sheikh Galal who had been there for
nine years; Sheikh Galal told Hassan where a treasure was hidden and
then died. Hassan escaped from prison and found the treasure. He then
began planning his revenge against the people who put him in prison.
He fell in love with a dancer named Zomorouda [Samia Gamal] who helped
him get his revenge and then married him.
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Abdel Rahman, Anwar Wagdi, Samia Gamal, Madiha
Yousri, Kamal al-Shennawi. Seraj Munir, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Farid
Shawqi, Hussein Riad, Ali Al-Kassar, Giulio De Luca, Youssef Gohar,
Youssef Esa, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdel Rahim El Zarkani, Zaki Ibrahim,
Abdel Aziz Ahmed
