Escape from Zahrain (1962)

Cast

Yul Brynner
as Sharif
James Mason
as Johnson
Jack Warden
as Huston
Sal Mineo
as Ahmed

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Genres & Description

Action Adventure Drama

6.1 / 10

During the 1960s, in a fictitious strife-ridden Arab nation, captured revolutionary nationalist leader Sharif is being transported to a prison for execution. The police van transporting him to the prison is attacked by Sharif's fanatical followers. Ahmed, the leader of the students' revolt frees Sharif along with three other prisoners. Among them is Huston, an American who has embezzled money from the Zahrain Oil Company. The fugitives capture an ambulance and its nurse, Laila. They flee from the city toward the border but during their trek across the desert, the convict Hassan is killed in a police ambush. A romance starts between Ahmed, the student leader and Laila, the ambulance nurse. Unfortunately, Ahmed is later killed by a government strafing fighter plane. Later, Tahar, another convict, is also killed.The three lone survivors are Laila, Sharif and Huston. Will they reach their destination?

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Mélina Charlet

Certainly the most respectful 1960s American movie about arabs. I'm arabic and i can tell you: in the movie all the arabic words are right, the arabic writing is right too, the names are real arabic names. I think it's first non-historical movie who tried to respect arabs. Plus it's showing true arabic issues and make the public aware of many things that's really happening in the arabic world. Plus it's fun, not boring at all and of course wonderful Sal Mineo is here to give us the sexual tension we all enjoy. I don't know what to ask more. It's an amazing movie and it is so underrated! - @Saturday, June 23, 2018 9:13 PM

Bill Anthony

On a scale of one to ten, as a B-Rated Film, I give this movie a ten. It has a great cast, superior writing, and enough action to keep the story moving forward with ease. This is everything an excellent B-Rated Movie should be, and you used to be able to watch it on YouTube for free. The copyright laws are being applied unevenly and unfairly. In the years to come, YouTube, and like minded sites, will eventually displace Hollywood. The future control of entertainment will be taken away from the mean spirited little minds in Hollywood, and placed directly in the control of artists and fans! Twenty-five or thirty years from now, it's gonna be a whole new ballgame! - @Saturday, April 29, 2017 4:56 PM