The Wind and the Lion |  | Actors: Chris Aller, Luis Barboo, Deborah Baxter, Candice Bergen, Sean Connery
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  129 reviews
Sales Rank: 5247
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.6
MPN: WARD65622D
ISBN: 0790765292
UPC: 012569562226
EAN: 9780790765297
ASIN: B0000EYUCK
Theatrical Release Date: 1975
Release Date: January 6, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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
Product Description
SET IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY MOROCCO, AND BASED ON A REAL LIFEINCIDENT ABOUT A SPIRITED AMERICAN WOMAN KIDNAPPED BY A WILYDESERT SHEIK.
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 The Wind and the Lion January 27, 2010
Ellen M. Peacock (Elyria, Oh)
Received CD promptly and it is in good condition. Glad I could get it through Amazon at such a good price and the fact that it was available as it is an old movie.
 Classic! January 27, 2010
G. Waldhauser
A great classic movie in a superb picture quality for a standard DVD. Sound lacks a little bit, but ...
Wind and the Lion December 12, 2009
Floyd W. Dooley Sr. (Virginia Beach, VA USA)
I was completely satisfied with my video. It came packaged and just as advertised. This was a video that I've been trying to find for quite some time now and I found it only on Amazon.com.It was shipped and received within 1 week.
A flick worth the popcorn, drink, and soda November 8, 2009
William Perez (Honolulu Hawaii)
Great flick, although a little bit skewed historically. This film is loosely based on the kidnapping of an American woman and her children in Morocco during the Theodore Roosevelt presidency. Sean Connery (who I still cant believe would ever come across as a Russian submarine captain) plays the loveable Berber rogue who kidnaps Candace Bergen (who plays the strong willed American woman he kidnaps) as a way of protesting the Sultan of Morocco's government, whom he considers under the influence of European powers. Both play their parts well and are a pleaseure to watch playing off each other. Of particular note is the late Brian Keith, who plays Theodore Roosevelt. He is exactly what you would think Teddy was like (except for his particular feelings about Marines, an outfit he would have preferred transferred to the Army had it not given him particular political leverage in unsheathing his 'Big Stick' policy). Another memorable character is John Huston, who plays Teddy's Secretary of State John Hay. Adventure is the name of the game with a few tender moments thorwn in. If you are a horse lover, you may have cause to whince on some of the action scenes. All in all a movie that delivers alot of action and wont dissappoint
 Time casts a harsh light on this film August 30, 2009
C. B Collins Jr. (Atlanta, GA United States)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
When produced, this film was probably dazzling and exotic. Handsome Sean Connery plays the Arabian prince, full of bravery and daring. Candice Bergin plays the American beauty, elite in her social class but a strong mother with an impeccable character. Brian Keith plays the frustrated President Teddy Roosevelt, forced to make hard decisions that are in the best interest of the American people while showing compassion for the kidnapped American millionaire and her children. The coastal scenery is lush and the desert scenery bleak but beautiful. The story is one of romance where East meets West and all parties turn out to be honorable and heroic.
So why is this movie problematic in 2009?
This film was made at a time when white characters were shown to be intelligent, brave, and industrious when compared to persons of color. Therefore the Arabs in the film are depicted as clownish. There is a scene where the kidnapped family fights Arab bandits and an American child is able to fight the bandits and win. This seems odd. The Arabs are portrayed to be corrupt and their hereditary leader is portrayed as a cartoonish clown. Sean Connery plays the part of the uncle of the Arabian ruler, called the Raisulis, now involved in a rebellion of sorts. But it is never clear what the rebellion is all about. We never understand why the Raisulis kidnaps the American woman and her two children. Brian Keith does the best job in the film playing Teddy Roosevelt. But the blunderbuss gun-boat diplomacy practiced by the Americans is portrayed in a positive light. The conception of the United States' diplomatic players and their abilities as a bunch of gun slinging, wild, cowboys is out of date. It may have been entertaining in 1975 but current world conditions reveals this drama to be stereotypical in a disturbing way. Paul Bowles' Sheltering Sky is a far more sinister but accurate account of West misunderstanding East.
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