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Escape from Zahrain is a 1962 American Panavision adventure film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Yul Brynner. The film is based on the novel Appointment in Zahrain by Michael Barrett (1960).
A 1962 movie about a group of fugitives trying to escape from a fictional Arab country. Starring Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Jack Warden and Madlyn Rhue, directed by Ronald Neame.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Ronald Neame
- 1962-05-23
Escape from Zahrain (1962) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Released in 1962, "Escape from Zahrain" is a survival-in-the-desert flick that takes place in the fictitious Arabian country of Zahrain. Yul Brynner plays Sheriff, a righteous Arab revolutionary, while Sal Mineo plays his young disciple who sets him free from captivity and certain death.
When a freedom fighter in the fictitious Middle Eastern country of Zahrain is freed by university students and a massive manhunt is set in motion to track them down, the group must brave inhospitable desert terrain with the help of an Arab nurse whose ambulance they have hijacked.
- Ronald Neame
- Paramount
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Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and the other prisoners kidnap an ambulance and head into the Arabian desert with the police in hot pursuit.
