Escape from Zahrain

Escape from Zahrain
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ronald Neame
Produced by	Ronald Neame Francisco Day
Screenplay by	Robin Estridge Dudley Nichols (uncredited)
Starring	Yul Brynner Anthony Caruso Sal Mineo Jay Novello Madlyn Rhue Leonard Strong Jack Warden James Mason Chris Munson Vladimir Sokoloff
Music by	Lyn Murray
Cinematography	Ellsworth Fredericks
Edited by	Eda Warren
Production company	Paramount Pictures Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Olive Films
Release dates	April 23, 1962 (1962-04-23) (United States)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Escape from Zahrain is a 1962 American action film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Yul Brynner, Anthony Caruso, James Mason and Jack Warden.^[1] The film is based on the novel Appointment in Zahrain by Michael Barrett.

The film is set in the fictional state of Zahrain, located in the Arabian Peninsula. The main characters are part of a group of condemned prisoners who flee across the desert in an attempt to reach the Protectorate of Aden. One is an American oil worker, another an Arab revolutionary and the third a British agent, providing different perspectives on the Middle East of the early 1960s.

References

↑ IMDb.com

External links

Escape from Zahrain at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Ronald Neame

Take My Life (1947)
Golden Salamander (1950)
The Card (1952)
The Million Pound Note (1954)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
The Seventh Sin (1957)
Windom's Way (1957)
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
Tunes of Glory (1960)
Escape from Zahrain (1962)
I Could Go On Singing (1963)
The Chalk Garden (1964)
Mister Moses (1965)
A Man Could Get Killed (1966)
Gambit (1966)
Prudence and the Pill (1968)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
Scrooge (1970)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Odessa File (1974)
Meteor (1979)
Hopscotch (1980)
First Monday in October (1981)
Foreign Body (1986)

The films of Dudley Nichols

Director & Screenplay	Government Girl (1944) Sister Kenny (1946) Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)

Screenplay	Men Without Women (1930) Born Reckless (1930) A Devil with Women (1930) Seas Beneath (1931) The Black Camel (1931) Hush Money (1931) She Wanted a Millionaire (1932) Pilgrimage (1933) You Can't Buy Everything (1934) The Lost Patrol (1934) Judge Priest (1934) The Informer (1935) The Arizonian (1935) The Crusades (1935) Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) The Three Musketeers (1935) Mary of Scotland (1936) The Plough and the Stars (1937) The Toast of New York (1937) The Hurricane (1937) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Carefree (1938) Stagecoach (1939) The Long Voyage Home (1940) Man Hunt (1941) Swamp Water (1941) The Battle of Midway (1942) Air Force (1943) This Land Is Mine (1943) Bataan (1943) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) It Happened Tomorrow (1944) And Then There Were None (1945) The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) Scarlet Street (1945) The Fugitive (1947) Pinky (1949) Return of the Texan (1952) The Big Sky (1952) Prince Valiant (1954) Run for the Sun (1956) The Tin Star (1957) The Hangman (1959) Heller in Pink Tights (1960) Escape from Zahrain (1962)

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