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.
12 March 1923, Zgierz, Lódzkie, Poland
23 February 1931, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
9 February 1927, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1941
3 June 1929, Walthamstow, London, England, UK
14 November 1921, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
11 April 1944, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
31 July 1935, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
2 March 1940, Reinosa, Cantabria, Spain
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.
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.
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.
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.
