A not-bad desert adventure flick from Paramount, this one's notable for featuring Yul Brynner as the Arabic hero leading a rag-tag group on an escape from a fictional African country, Zahrain. It's very similar to all those British desert war flicks of the 1950s, such as the classic ICE COLD IN ALEX, although inevitably nowhere near the same quality. Still, Brynner's constant bickering with Jack Warden is mildly entertaining, Sal Mineo brings some youthful bravado to his role, and James Mason has a surprise cameo. There's plenty of action and incident at least which keeps the running time moving smoothly on.
Review of Escape from Zahrain
