Leila the Rich Girl [leila bint el agnia] (1947) - (Laila Mourad) Style B Egyptian film poster F, NM $85 *
Size: 27" x 39"
Price: $85
Condition: Folded, Near Mint
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This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by a Sabry to promote an
undated rerelease of the 1947 Anwar Wagdi musical Leila the Rich
Girl, a remake of Frank Capra's 1934 It Happened One Night,
with story by Anwar Wagdi, screenplay and dialogue by Badei Khayri and
starring Laila Mourad as Leila. Plot summary: Leila was a pretty girl
from a rich family who had lost her mother. Her father Hassan Rostam
Basha [Bechara Wakim] was dominated by his bossy new wife Monira
[Olwiyya Gamil]. Monira had imposed the bridegroom Gamil [Said Abu
Bakr] on Leila because he was her nephew and she was planning to use
him to get the money Leila would be receiving from her father.
However when Gamil approached Leila during the wedding ceremony she
pushed him away and ran out of the proceedings immediately. The press
was full of reports about the search for the missing bride's car,
which was damaged on a bridge and fell into the water; one of Leila's
shoes she had been wearing at the wedding was found in the car. The
journalist Wahid [Anwar Wagdi] went to the village where the accident
had taken place and found Leila's other shoe. He was surprised by the
sound of the enchanting voice of a young girl sitting on the bank
singing in a tortured tone of voice. Wahid approached the girl
because of her beauty and the sweetness of her voice. One of the
people in the village told him she was the daughter of the village
mayor [Abdel Hamid Zaki]. She was sick and everyone at her house was
waiting for a physician who was on the way from Cairo. Wahid knocked
on the door and claimed he was the doctor from Cairo looking for the
girl. Once he saw her he realized she was not the one he had seen on
the bridge. Wahid and the girl, who said her name was Farhana, left
the mayor's house. Then Wahid learned the girl with him was really
Leila, the runaway bride everyone thought had been killed because her
loose shoes had been found. Back in Cairo Wahid convinced Leila's
father she was still alive by taking him to the farmer's home where
she was hiding. At first Leila thought Wahid did not love her and was
planning to take her back to the misery she had been fleeing in
exchange for reward money; instead Wahid was finally able to awaken
the conscience of Leila's father and make him aware of the
conspiratorial plans of his bossy wife and her nephew. The basha
divorced Monira publicly and Leila immediately went back to Wahid, who
was waiting nearby.
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