Thousand and One Nights, A [alf layla wa layla] (1941) - (Ali Al-Kassar) Egyptian stone litho film poster F, NM $135 *
Size: 25" x 35"
Price: $135
Condition: Folded, Near Mint
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Pictured is a 25" x 35" Egyptian stone lithograph poster designed to
promote the 1941 Togo Mizrahi 94-minute black-and-white film A
Thousand and One Nights [alf layla wa layla] starring Ali
Al-Kassar based on story and screenplay by Togo Mizrahi, dialogue by
Badie Khayri and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: One
of the tales told by the legendary Scheherezade [Zouzou Nabil] becomes
the main plot in this film. While fishing one day a fisherman named
Othman Abd al-Baset [Ali Al-Kassar] finds a child in a floating
basket, raises him and teaches him how to fish. After 20 years or so
when the son (named Morgan) has become a man, [Hamed Morsi] Othman is
arrested and put in prison for fishing in a forbidden area, but the
daughter of the prince [Aqila Ratib] intervenes and gets him released.
Othman catches a big fish and gives it to his son to give to the
princess as a gift. As Morgan approaches the home of the princess he
hears some beautiful singing and responds with some beautiful singing
of his own. The adviser to the father of the prince wants to marry
the princess to a fake prince so he can take her money. While fishing
one day Othman finds a box and opens it. This releases a genie (a man
dressed in a devil suit with stuffed horns), who rewards Othman with a
magic scepter. Later on, the genie appears before him again another
day and tells him his son Morgan is in danger. At that moment Morgan
is singing as usual under the window of the princess. They arrest him
and turn him over to the adviser, who realizes because of a star
tatooed on his arm that Morgan is the missing prince, Bahaeddin,
[Hamed Morsi] who is also the cousin of this princess. To prevent
Morgan's true identity from becoming known, the adviser orders him
imprisoned and held for execution. Just as they are about to cut off
his head, Othman appears and proves the adviser's treachery. The
princess sees the tattoo, realizes who Morgan is and introduces him to
his real father and mother. The two cousins marry and Othman is
rewarded.
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