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Escape from Zahrain (1961)

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Film details

Featuring

Yul Brynner Sal Mineo Jack Warden
Country

USA
Year

1961
Genres

Melodrama Action and Adventure
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Adventure melodrama. Before his trial, a charismatic rebel leader of the fictional Arab nation Zahrain is smuggled with some ordinary convicts into the desert to be killed. His supporters ambush the lorry, though, and then, switching to a hijacked ambulance with nurse Laila on board, they make for the border, far across the scorching desert, with the authorities in hot pursuit.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Sharif
    
    Yul Brynner
  - Ahmed
    
    Sal Mineo
  - Huston
    
    Jack Warden
  - Laila
    
    Madlyn Rhue
  - Tahar
    
    Anthony Caruso
  - Hassan
    
    Jay Novello
  - [Johnson]
    
    James Mason
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Ronald Neame
  - Production Company
    
    Paramount Pictures Corporation
  - Producer
    
    Ronald Neame
  - Associate Producer
    
    Chico Day
  - Screenplay
    
    Robin Estridge
  - Original novel
    
    Michael Barrett
  - Director of Photography
    
    Ellsworth J. Fredricks
  - Editor
    
    Eda Warren
  - Art Director
    
    Eddie Imazu
  - Music
    
    Lyn Murray
  - Sound Recording
    
    Gene Merritt
  - Sound Recording
    
    Charles Grenzbach

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