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| The Wind and the Lion | 
 enlarge | Actors: Chris Aller, Luis Barboo, Deborah Baxter, Candice Bergen, Sean Connery
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.96
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Avg. Customer Rating:  123 reviews
Sales Rank: 4032
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 119
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
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
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| Customer Reviews:
 luis g caliz July 20, 2007
A good movie and if you think about it, very similar to events taking place in this days....
 SEAN CONNERY? AN ARAB TRIBAL EADER?? May 21, 2007
Only Sean Connery, with his thick, albeit familiar accent could pull off a role such as this, with Candace Bergen no less as the believeable heroine. Sprawling vistas, great cinematography, great soundtrack make this a must collector item for lovers of adventure films and historical epics. In spite of the beheadings (tastefully depicted) my entire family enjoyed the picture.
shullcat2003
 Not too bad March 10, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Men will like this shoot-em-up. The most interesting scene in the movie was the one where a military regiment marched into Tangier, followed by a brass band. I am quite sure that they really were U S Marines.
 See The Man Who Would Be King for better Connery, Huston and Middle East intrigue February 19, 2007
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I didn't like this one. Here is why:
-It is unevenly paced and slackly directed. Heavy on the action/swash-buckling, lite on the substance.
-At no time was Sean Connery anyone but Sean Connery. He is surely an "international star" but I still
cringe when persona overwhelms character.
-Candice Bergen was annoyingly bland. The romance of the film is weak and always on the verge, leaving
the tension unrealized.
-The hyper-patriotism, something like Milius' hyper-masculine forte, overwhelms any nuance or adroitness
that a scenario such as this requires. Any research into this story will yield that the reality was that an
Englishman and his son were kidnapped, and that no military force was used. This is only an issue
because using the basic story as an adventure tale of American thuggery-diplomacy is less than exciting.
Unless you are a fan of rousing heavy handed mythos.
-I have never seen this many horses fall as their rider is shot or bombarded. It looks real, and accurate, but
I found it distracting.
-While the violence is unremitting, almost all the lead characters are as well. This left me uninterested in them. Except
Brian Keith's Teddy Roosevelt.
It's not all bad. Here's what I did like:
-Brian Keith. He's the best Teddy Roosevelt I've seen in film. That he wasn't nominated as a best supporting
actor is unfortunate.
-Jerry Goldsmith's score is rousing and epic, very good. He was nominated, deservedly. Predictably, he lost
to John Williams and Jaws.
-Billy Williams cinematography. Shot in Spain, doubling for Morocco-the scope and terrain are gorgeous
and epic.
-The stunt work is fabulous.
CLASSIC SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE AND COMMENT ON U.S. POLICY February 18, 2007
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This has been one of my favourite movies for many, many years. It has it all: wild adventure, sword fights, charging horses, explosions, heads flying in every direction, more explosions, and some astonishing performances by many of Hollywood's best character actors. And it has Sean Connery -- the only James Bond -- turning in a stellar performance. And it features the wildly underrated Brian Keith turning in a memorable performance as the great President Theodore Roosevelt. I watched this movie again and was struck by its comment on U.S. foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East. In Keith's scene were he compares the U.S. to a grizzly bear -- strong, dominating, respected; but hated, feared, and sometimes blind and wild; however, often lonely -- summed up nicely U.S. foreign policy over the decades. Keith's Roosevelt is gruff, strong, intelligent, and throughly honest in his perceptions of the world and the mad men who run it. He doesn't see Connery's character as an ignorant Arab bandit: he sees him as someone fighting to keep foreigners from controlling his land; he wants his country to remain his country. And he sees the established Arab leadership as corrupted by the influence of the Great European Powers. One wonders what Teddy would think of the Bush Administration and its adventure in Iraq.
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