Movies - Zarak

	Movies - Zarak

Zarak is a 1956 film based on the novel by A.J. Bevan.

Set in northern India, (though filmed in Morocco), the film starred Victor Mature, Michael Wilding, Anita Ekberg, and -- in a small part -- Patrick McGoohan. Often classified as a minor piece of "escapism," this 99-minute film nevertheless boasted a surprising amount of emerging film talent. Ted Moore, who handled some of the Technicolor/CinemaScope photography, later performed similar work on the early James Bond films, and art director John Box and costume designer Phyllis Dalton later won Oscars for their work on Doctor Zhivago
. Richard Maibaum, who adapted A.J. Bevan's novel, went on to adapt such Ian Fleming novels as Dr. No
, From Russia With Love, and Goldfinger
.

Trivia

The high points of Victor Mature's film career were in the past by the time he made this movie, but it still earned for him an unusual sort of distinction. According to the book Lash! The Hundred Great Scenes of Men Being Whipped in the Movies, Zarak marked what may be the only time in which a Hollywood movie star is flogged twice in the same movie, and also the only time in which the character played by a movie star dies under the lash.

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