Period adventure starring Sean Connery and Candice Bergen. Tangier 1904: an American widow and her two children are kidnapped in a daring raid and held for ransom by Mulay El Raisuli, an outlawed Berber chieftain. As international tension rises, President Theodore Roosevelt decides to intervene with swift military action.
In this stunning desert adventure, Sean Connery stars as the Berber chieftain who kidnaps an American woman (Candice Bergen in a role intended for Katharine Hepburn) and incurs the wrath of US President Teddy Roosevelt, who sends the"big stick" into Morocco. Written and directed by John Milius, this brilliant satire on colonialism pays due tribute to such diverse movies as Lawrence of Arabia and the samurai epics of Akira Kurosawa, and manages to be both funny and thrilling; it's also an insightful look at America's role as world policeman. Connery gives what may be his most charismatic performance ever, and Brian Keith is deeply in period as the one-eyed, bear-hunting, gung-ho president. Add to this a soaring Jerry Goldsmith score and some marvellous locations and you have one of the most enjoyable movies of the 1970s.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Mulay El Raisuli | Sean Connery |
| Eden Pedecaris | Candice Bergen |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Brian Keith |
| John Hay | John Huston |
| Gummere | Geoffrey Lewis |
| Captain Jerome | Steve Kanaly |
| Admiral Chadwick | Roy Jenson |
| Bashaw | Vladek Sheybal |
| Dreighton | Darrell Fetty |
| Sherif of Wazan | Nadim Sawalha |
| Von Roerkel | Antoine St John |
| William | Simon Harrison |
| Jennifer | Polly Gottesman |
| Ugly arab | Aldo Sambrell |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | John Milius |
