The Wind and the Lion (1975)

Directed by

John Milius

Genre

action film, adventure film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 01m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 211 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Berber rebel in Morocco kidnaps an American woman and her children. This sets off a diplomatic and military confrontation between the United States and the local government.

epicold-fashionedromanticadventurousrousinggrandleisurelyhistorical

What happens

The Wind and the Lion is a 1975 American epic historical adventure film written and directed by John Milius, and starring Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, and John Huston. The film is loosely based on the real-life Perdicaris affair of 1904. Connery plays Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli, a Moroccan Berber rebel and anti-imperialist leader, and Bergen plays his American hostage Eden Pedecaris, a fictional character inspired by Ion Hanford Perdicaris. Milius' second feature film as a director, it was produced by Herb Jaffe for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and distributed in the U.S. by United Artists and internationally by Columbia Pictures. It received generally positive reviews from critics, and was a moderate commercial success. Jerry Goldsmith’s film score received Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Grammy Award nominations. Milius was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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