Escape from Zahrain
(1962)
Directed by Ronald
Neame this film based on the novel “Appointment in Zahrain” stars
Yul Brynner, Jack Warden and Madlyn Rhue. Following a break out an
Arab revolutionary, an American embezzler and other criminals seek to
escape across the desert.
While this film makes
some pretence to explore imperialism in the Arab peninsula it never
goes very deep into the matter but at least it offers a surprisingly
liberal out look for the time it was made. Disappointingly a lot of
the plot is a second rate knock off of Ice Cold in Alex (1958) but
offers little of the tension of the earlier film. At times some of
the camera tricks and special effects are a little too obvious but if
this is the type of film you are into it is not a bad watch.
3/5
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