May 13th
The Wind and the Lion**      

(US 1975)                                          

In 1904 a rogue Arab kidnaps an American writer and her children, to cause ructions not only in Morocco but also internationally.
Stylish and evocatively made (hankering obviously after Lawrence of Arabia) historical adventure, with some interesting parallels with America's intervention in Vietnam then (in 1975), and its later involvement in the Middle East now - although the style, it has to be said, is very much Saturday Evening Post hyperbole, with action scenes rather thoughtlessly executed with little reason or meaning, in between Milius clearly enjoying his historical preaching from both Old world and New.

Written and Directed by: John Milius.
Producers: Herb Jaffe, Phil Rawlins.
Starring: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith (as Theodore Roosevelt), Vladek Sheybal, Geoffrey Lewis, John Huston, Steve Kanaly, Nadim Sawalha.
Photography: Billy Williams.
Music: Jerry Goldsmith.
Editing: Robert L. Woolfe.