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The Wind and the Lion
The film is based on a true event. It is about a Moroccan chief kidnapping an widow and her children. He must experience an extraordinary adventure which he could never has imagined.
27 January 1954
11 April 1944, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
20 March 1927, Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
25 December 1913, Nova Scotia, Canada
10 November 1933, Elkins, West Virginia, USA
9 September 1935, Madaba, Jordan
5 May 1944, Lucknow, India
5 August 1906, Nevada, Missouri, USA
1941
12 March 1923, Zgierz, Lódzkie, Poland
31 July 1935, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
20 May 1948, Milton, West Virginia, USA
9 May 1946, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 January 1930, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
23 February 1931, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
1961, Marylebone, London, England, UK
9 February 1927, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
June 05, 2009
A bogus history lesson that's a mixture of fact and fiction.
August 27, 2008
A kind of big-budget, all-star extravaganza the equivalent of which we really don't have today -- and for which mainstream movies are a little worse off.
May 19, 2014
The Wind And The Lion is a neat mixture of romanticization and realpolitik [...] The film is memorable for its action scenes [...] but also for the reflective moments from which those action scenes are born.
October 21, 2010
An 'incoherent text' headier than any screen Kipling adaptation
January 15, 2004
The marriage of epic romance and the epic romanticization of brutality.
March 14, 2015
Milius's incredible balancing act might have turned very rancid, yet miraculously his mixture of full-blown romanticism and a genial sense of its absurdity produces a deeply satisfying picture.
