The Wind and the Lion

The Wind and the Lion (1975)

  • 70% of critics liked it
    (10 reviews)

  • 70% of users liked it
    (4,603 ratings)

In the early 1900s, an American businessman was kidnapped by a rebellious Arab chieftain, principally as a means to embarrass the sultan of Morocco. This abduction sparked the threat of armed intervention by President Theodore Roosevelt, which was never carried out. In The Wind and the Lion, the… More

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PG, 1 hr. 59 min.
Directed By
John Milius
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1975 Wide
On DVD
Jan 6, 2004
MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    An 'incoherent text' headier than any screen Kipling adaptation

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    A bogus history lesson that's a mixture of fact and fiction.

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    A kind of big-budget, all-star extravaganza the equivalent of which we really don't have today -- and for which mainstream movies are a little worse off.

  • Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

    The marriage of epic romance and the epic romanticization of brutality.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Ken S


    The action is great, the dialog crackles, and how can you not live a young Candice Bergen. Also watching Sean Connery playing Mulay Achmed Mohammed el-Raisuli the Magnificent with a Scottish accent is hilarious. But, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel about all the… More

  • xGary X


    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… More

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