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Zarak is a British film of genre Action directed by Yakima Canutt released in USA on 1 december 1956 with Victor Mature
Zarak (1956)
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Zarak is a 1957 British Warwick Films CinemaScope in Technicolor action film based on the 1949 book The Story of Zarak Khan by A.J. Bevan. It was directed by Terence Young with assistance from John Gilling and Yakima Canutt. Set in the Northwest Frontier and Afghanistan (though filmed in Morocco), the film starred Victor Mature, Michael Wilding, Anita Ekberg, and featured Patrick McGoohan in a supporting role.
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Zarak Khan (Victor Mature) is the son of a chief who is caught embracing one his father's wives Salma (Anita Ekberg). Zarak's father sentenced both to torture and death but they are saved by an Imam (Finlay Currie). The exiled Zarak becomes a bandit chief and an enemy of the British Empire.Actors
Victor Mature
(Zarak Khan)
Michael Wilding
(Maj. Michael Ingram)
Anita Ekberg
(Salma)
Bonar Colleano
(Biri (Zarak's brother))
Eunyce Gayson
(Cathy Ingram)
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