- Its only Arab figure is Leila, an Algerian girl who exists in flashback as a paratrooper's wartime romance; she dies when the bridge she runs to in search of him is blown up, her role beginning and ending as the hero's tragic exotic love.
Flight from Ashiya (1964)
film · 1964 film by Michael Anderson
- Director
- Michael Anderson
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Distributors
- United Artists, Netflix
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Genres
- adventure film, drama film, romance film
- Cast
- Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris, Suzy Parker