Ten years later here's some information. I watched Legend of the Lost yesterday on TV. Marsha Hunt was married to Robert Presnell Jr. for forty years until his death. Presnell is credited as screenwriter of Legend of the Lost along with Ben Hecht.
At this link is an interview she gave in 2008 where she answered questions about her years in the movie business. http://www.lex-barker.com/index.php?lang=eng&menu=hunt
The following question (in bold type) and her answer are quotes from that interview.
"You played with John Wayne in Born To The West / Hell Town (1937). But there is another Wayne movie, Legend Of The Lost (1957), with your name in the credits."
"No, Legend Of The Lost is Robert Presnell Jr.'s script. I think they had some re-writes because John Wayne wanted his lines to sound more like John Wayne — simple language. My Robert wrote a really beautiful script. I was nowhere around that film but it was written by my husband."
She is saying that she did not appear in Legend of the Lost. As for Ibrahim El Hadish, perhaps he is the man whom Prefect Dukas (Kurt Kasznar) tells to halt the funeral procession the Prefect is leading so that the Prefect can talk to the new arrival Paul Bonnard (Rossano Brazzi).
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