The Wind and the Lion

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The Wind and the Lion

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The Wind and the Lion

Brian Keith, Candice Bergen, Geoffrey Lewis, John Huston, Nadim Sawalha

The up-and-down career of director John Milius had no finer moment than The Wind and the Lion, a dandy adventure tale. It's based on fact: An American (played by Candice Bergen) and her two children w...( read more  read more... )ere kidnapped in 1904 Morocco by a Berber tribe, an international incident settled by President Theodore Roosevelt's "big stick" military muscle. The film's sweep and swagger are unabashedly old-fashioned, even as Milius occasionally pokes fun at the grand characters. Some of the peripheral material is sloppy, but as long as Milius keeps his sights locked on the two powerful protagonists, he's dead-on: Brian Keith makes a gutsy Roosevelt, and Sean Connery is in splendid form (with Scots accent in place--got a problem with that?) as the dashing Berber chieftain. Perhaps overshadowed by John Huston's The Man Who Would be King the same year (Huston plays advisor John Hay in this one), Wind makes a marvelous companion piece. --Robert Horton

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  • garyX
    June 2, 2008
    garyX
    Based on actual events, The Wind And The Lion is the story of a banished Moroccan chieftan who kidnaps an American woman and her two children in an attempt to rid his country of its occupying European forces resulting in a stand off between he and president Roosevelt. Written and...( read more) directed by John Milius who was responsible for scripts as diverse as Apocalypse Now and Conan The Barbarian, this film contains his typically clever dialogue and political subtext as well as a healthy dose of rousing action. There is a satirical commentary on colonialism in general as well as America's role as self-appointed world policeman; Roosevelt is shown as a man more interested in self-aggrandisement and bluster than justice, all too ready to send in the troops to stamp his will on the rest of the world (the American's glorious "victory" is against a hugely inferior and unprepared force. Plus ca change...) His opponent is played by Sean Connery at his most charismatic, and Candice Bergen ably fills a role originally intended for Katherine Hepburn as the kidnapped woman who grows to understand the man and realises he is no savage, but an honourable and educated leader of men. Add a great supporting cast and a rousing score, it's in turns funny, clever and exciting making this adventure from the old school at it's most stirring.
  • cep5101
    July 14, 2009
    cep5101
    While Brian Keith is great, the rest is terribly so-so.
  • RuthieGreenGirl
    March 27, 2009
    RuthieGreenGirl
    It's been so long since I've seen this but I remember that I liked it.
  • Soundsofmadness
    January 3, 2009
    Soundsofmadness
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • machinemolle
    June 20, 2008
    machinemolle
    Why is this movie so vastly underrated - if noticed at all?
  • slenderbill
    May 19, 2008
    slenderbill
    one of the best movies ever made
  • MECreviews
    March 6, 2008
    MECreviews
    This movie was boring.
  • Orlando008
    November 1, 2007
    Orlando008
    Vastly entertaining ... One of my all-time favourite adventure movies ... Keith Brian & Sean Connery - simply brill!
  • thmpsnkids
    July 13, 2007
    thmpsnkids
    Sean Connery as a very sexy Arab Sheik. Loved it!
  • kevtamjercon
    July 9, 2007
    kevtamjercon
    A very intersting movie
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