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Writer:
Richard Maibaum (writer)
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Release Date:
December 1956 (USA) more
Tagline:
For the Harem Beauty...Mighty Zarak Fought Half a Continent! more
Plot:
An Afghan Outlaw finally saves a British Officer at the cost of his own life. full summary | add synopsis
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Gung-Ho adventure in the 50's on a screen that seemed impossibly wide! more (8 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Victor Mature ... Zarak Khan
Michael Wilding ... Maj. Michael Ingram

Anita Ekberg ... Salma
Bonar Colleano ... Biri (Zarak's brother)
Eunice Gayson ... Cathy Ingram
Finlay Currie ... The Mullah
Peter Illing ... Ahmad
Bernard Miles ... Hassu the one-eyed
Eddie Byrne ... Kasim

Patrick McGoohan ... Moor Larkin
Frederick Valk ... Haji Khan (Zarak's father)
André Morell ... Maj. Atherton
Harold Goodwin ... Sgt. Higgins
Alec Mango ... Akbar (merchant)
Oscar Quitak ... Youssuff
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Additional Details

Runtime:
99 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The last feature film of Frederick Valk. more
Quotes:
Haji Khan: Take my son and flog him. Flog him to death! more
Movie Connections:
Featured in The Brigand of Kandahar (1965) more
Soundtrack:
Climb Up the Wall more

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8 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
Gung-Ho adventure in the 50's on a screen that seemed impossibly wide!, 20 November 2001
Author: Noel Bailey (uds3@hotmail.com) from Longmont: Colorado US

It's interesting sitting down to write a review on a film you have only seen once - some forty five years ago! Just ten years old, perhaps on account of the striking name (ZARAK - how onomatopoeic? - better look that one up!) I have remembered the film clearly...perhaps Anita Ekberg was an early awakening for me?

Victor Mature done up like bin Laden on a bad day, played the title role with gusto, the middle eastern outlaw, on the run from terribly British Michael Wilding as Major Ingram. He derring-do's with the best of them! This type of desert adventure was all the rage in the 50's, another biggie of its day as I recall, Tyrone Power in KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES!...but I digress!

Probably most men in the audience (and I was inarguably male, even at that stage) will doubtless remember Ms Ekberg as Zarak's forbidden love Salma, rather inconveniently one of his father's wives. Unless I am mistaken, I seem to recall Zarak pacing around his exotic garden while Ms Ekberg, barely legally silked-up, was sashaying around him teasingly, singing "Climb up the Garden Wall," God, I'd like to see that again!

So yeah, take it from a ten year old, this was a film that went off!

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