The Wind and the Lion

Bought this DVD as a present for my mother it took sometime to arrive but it had to travel from America it was well worth the waitshe loves it and has watched it six times.!

great film had this film on dvd for years and just had to get it on blueray

Didn’t see this when it first came out but I did see it about 30 years ago. I thought it was quite good at the time. I think it’s OK now. It just hasn’t stood the test of time. I don’t recall feeling that any Sean Connery movie was a waste of the cost of admission. Well…. maybe Meteor, but that had an ensemble cast I believe.The movie is based on a real incident where an American mother is kidnapped by a North African dissident. Wind has a bit of a 70’s anti establishment feel to it as the bad guys are big power politicians and generals. It is quite kind to the Razzuli, Connery’s character. Good turns by the rest of the cast, although I found Candice Bergen’s portrayal a little wooden.

This is a (brief) review for the Warner Archive bluray, since all these reviews get lumped in together.This film is a marvel, really. Don't listen to the sticklers who moan about a Berber with a Scottish accent, Connery is magnificent in this, at the height of his rough physicality and powers of charisma. The sequence at the end of the film, where he swoops on horseback to grab the shotgun from young William's reverent hands, is one of pure rousing joy. This film harks back to glorious, halcyon days of adventure, to Gunga Din and They Died With Their Boots On. It's a sweeping, widescreen love affair with manly men doing manly things, hardy men who live their lives moment to moment with death coming at but a moment's notice. This is probably John Milius' finest film, outside of Big Wednesday. His love of Teddy Roosevelt shines through (a love he was able to better articulate in his TV miniseries Rough Riders, which is also thoroughly recommended) but he obviously also admires the Berbers' peripatetic, brutal and yet poetically brutal culture. Jerry Goldsmith's score is lush and epic and one of his best.The WB Archive Collection bluray is region-free, if you're buying from the UK, and couldn't be more highly recommended. The Archive Collection staff continue to shame their counterparts at WB proper and provide us with a wonderful transfer at a maxxed-out bitrate with no digital tomfoolery. To wax predictable, they really don't make 'em like this anymore - they didn't even really make 'em like this anymore in the 70s!

Good Movie, very fast delivery by Moviemars-Canada.The product is exactly as described, I am very happy !