A group of desperate rebels manage to avoid being recaptured by corrupt government officials in a Middle Eastern country. They flee across the desert, led by a renegade warrior - but their journey looks set to be perilous as their enemies are hot on their heels, and it seems there's no end in sight. Action adventure, starring Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Jack Warden and Jay Novello.

Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and the other prisoners kidnap an ambulance and head into the Arabian desert with the police in hot pursuit. All the performances are magnificent: Sal Mineo showing his acting talents, Jack Warden in a wiseguy performance as an employee of Zahrain oil who was involved in embezzlement, Anthony Caruso as a slimy psychotic and the underrated Madlyn Rhue as a nurse who becomes emotionally involved in the proceedings.