The Wind and the Lion

Name: The Wind and the Lion
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Released: May 22, 1975
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Brian Keith, Candice Bergen, Deborah Baxter, Geoffrey Lewis, John Huston

1975

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: May 22, 1975 | PG

Starring: Brian Keith, Candice Bergen, Deborah Baxter, Geoffrey Lewis, John Huston, Nadim Sawalha, Roy Jenson, Sean Connery, Steve Kanaly, Vladek Sheybal

Summary: In early twentieth century Morocco, a Sharif kidnaps an American woman and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.

Director: John Milius

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Drama

Rating: PG

Runtime: 119 min

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Ted Mahar

It is a colorful tale in an exotic location, with excitingly staged action scenes, exotic desert locale and a richly colorful musical score by Jerry Goldsmith. It is also rich in satirical cynicism about international relations and political expediency. [09 Oct 1991, p.D07]

Louis Black

This opulently romantic celebration of American imperialism certainly presents the contradictions and is one hell of an epic. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

The Wind And The Lion is certainly jingoistic to a fault, and its portrayal of the various factions is little above the cartoon level, but thanks to marvelous performances by Keith and Connery, the film works as a maker of myths. Read full review

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Generally literate and very commercial period action drama, well written and better directed by John Milius. Read full review

Keith Phipps

The film is memorable for its action scenes—from an opening raid that erupts on an eerily quiet day through a Sam Peckinpah-inspired finale—but also for the reflective moments from which those action scenes are born. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Milius once more reveals that his overriding concern is with the formation of myth rather than realism, as he balances the fates of his two legendary figures - Brian Keith's Roosevelt and Sean Connery's kidnapper Raisuli - to dynamic effect. Read full review

Pauline Kael

When the actors begin to talk (which they do incessantly), the flat-footed dialogue and the amateurish acting (especially by the secondary characters) take one back to the low-budget buffoonery of Maria Montez and Turhan Bey.

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