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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.
11 August 1940, Avignon, Vaucluse, France
2 March 1940, Reinosa, Cantabria, Spain
14 March 1946, Burbank, California, USA
5 August 1906, Nevada, Missouri, USA
3 June 1929, Walthamstow, London, England, UK
23 February 1931, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
1961, Marylebone, London, England, UK
23 January 1930, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
January 15, 2004
The marriage of epic romance and the epic romanticization of brutality.
June 05, 2009
A bogus history lesson that's a mixture of fact and fiction.
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
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.
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.