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Caravans

1978-11-02 Action 2hr 7m

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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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.

  • Released
    1978-11-02
  • Revenue
    n/a
  • Budget
    n/a
  • Runtime
    2hr 7m
  • Genre
    Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
  • Status
    Released
  • Language
    Deutsch
  • imdb-logo
    5.9
  • Production
    Ibex Films, FIDCI, Universal Pictures

Crew

James Fargo
Director
Elmo Williams
Producer
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A Review by Geronimo1967 6

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2022-11-10

US Embassy official "Miller" (Michael Sarazin) is despatched into the desert to try to track down the missing daughter of an influential US ... read more

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 of 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!

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A Review by CinemaSerf

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....

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A Review by Geronimo1967 6

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2022-11-10

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...

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