Review – The Wind and the Lion

This starts out as a brain-dead Lawrence of Arabia wannabe and goes downhill from there. An American woman (Candice Bergen) visiting Morocco in the early 20th century is kidnapped by a local outlaw (Sean Connery). While Teddy Roosevelt (Brian Keith) dithers about what to do, our heroine Stockholms with her captor. Though Connery does about as good a Moroccan as John Wayne does as a Mongolian, none of the rest of the cast fares much better. Some of the epic battle stuff works in an epic battle sort of way, but otherwise this is missable fare. Mildly amusing