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Caravans
From Ibex Films · FIDCI · Universal Pictures
The Power, the Sweep, the Spectacle of James Michener's Epic Desert Adventure!
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This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a US Senator. The young woman has left her husband, a Colonel in the Shadom - she was his number two wife - and has opted for the lifestyle of a nomadic tribe. When the diplomat locates the girl he joins the caravan and attempts to persuade the girl to return.
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Directed by James Fargo
Anthony Quinn
Jennifer O'Neill
Michael Sarrazin
Christopher Lee
Joseph Cotten
Barry Sullivan
Behrouz Vossoughi
Jeremy Kemp
Mohammadali Keshavarz
Mohammad Taghi KahnemouiVideos
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CinemaSerfNov 10, 2022
US Embassy official "Miller" (Michael Sarazin) is despatched into the desert to try to track down the missing daughter of an influential US Senator. After many days (and it does feel like it) he meets her new and proud local husband - "Col. Nazrullah" (Behrouz Vossoughi) who initially refuses to let him meet her, only for it to turn out that she has again gone missing. More travelling reveals she has taken up with "Zulfiqqar" (Anthony Quinn), a tribal leader who makes a bit o… Read more
f money on the side smuggling Russian rifles into India. What now ensues is a remarkably filmed but terribly plodding adventure story that sees him and "Ellen" (Jennifer O'Neill) begin to understand each other and for him to realise just what she loves about her new home and it's people. Mike Batt's score (featuring the lovely dulcets of Barbara Dickson) and some beautiful and historic cinematography in and around Iran adds loads of richness to this presentation of the story, but sadly Quinn arrives far too late in the day to rescue this from grand-scale mediocrity and it ends rather weakly and ponderously. It could easily have been thirty minutes shorter and perhaps that would have tightened it up enough to sustain the thinly padded out thread, but as it is, it's a long old slog!