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Wind & The Lion
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Product Details
- Starring: Chris Aller, Luis Barboo, Deborah Baxter, Candice Bergen, Sean Connery
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- Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- EAN: 9786301978033
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- Format: Color, NTSC
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- ISBN: 630197803X
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- Label: MGM (Warner)
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- Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: MGM (Warner)
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- Release Date: 1998-09-01
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- Studio: MGM (Warner)
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- Title: Wind & The Lion
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- UPC: 027616066237
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Product Description: 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 were 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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Customer Reviews
Wind and the Lion
We were looking for a movie that would better describe the life in Arabia. This was a good historical perspective, I think, not taken too far out of context.
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Strong early 20th C American Woman Meets Strong early 20th C Mideastern Man
What a great and timeless movie! Sean Connery and Candace Bergen are a great match; with all their cultural differences and personal strength they find that, although each has met his/her match, they learn to like and respect the other. Brian Keith was a perfect choice for Teddy Roosevelt; he makes you think that it is himself on the screen! This movie is fun and exciting and a great period piece.
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The Wind and the Lion
A totally inaccurate movie but one of the greatest swashbucklers I've ever seen. Just a Note, the "Sound of Music" is totally inaccurate too.
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Excellent movie!
If adventure movies appeal to you, this one is worth your time. Sean Connery has never turned in a bad performance, and he is on top of his game in this film. Set in Morocco in late 1904, the film is based on a true story of an American woman abducted along with her children from her home in Tangier, and held hostage by a Berber chieftain, Raisuli.
Set in a time when many European nations' colonial aspirations were in full swing, this film touches on opposition to the European powers, but does not dwell on it. It is a love story in many ways, and one of the best films of this genre, possibly the best one. Highly recommended.
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classic dvd
Always loved this movie but hard to find a copy for rent or one that still plays well. great price, great condition.
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