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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).
Escape from Zahrain: Directed by Ronald Neame. With Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Jack Warden, Madlyn Rhue. A hunted revolutionary leads a rag tag group of individuals through the desert in an attempt to elude the security forces and escape the fictitious Arab country of Zahrain.
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.
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.
When the leader of an Arab country orders the assassination of captured guerrilla fighter Sharif (Yul Brynner), the attempt is thwarted by a group of college students.
Escape from Zahrain - Yul Brynner in Ronald Neame's ESCAPE FROM ZAHRAIN on DVD At his death in June of 2010, Ronald Neame was one of the last surviving talents from the golden years of the British film history.
Escape from Zahrain is a slice of no-nonsense entertainment as an ambulance with a motley crew is pursued across desert terrain by baddies. It's effectively Ice Cold in Alex remade by Paramount with a Middle East setting.
