Country: SW/US
Technical: col/scope 117m
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Peter Ustinov, Beverly Johnson, William Holden, Rex Harrison
Synopsis:
A UN doctor in Africa is kidnapped by slavers and caravanned across the desert to be sold to a sheikh in Egypt. Her husband meanwhile tracks them by any means he can, ultimately sinking to the same ethics as his quarry.
Review:
This trite thriller's one point of interest, the glimpse it offers of the centuries-old trans-Saharan slave route, is, needless to say of little concern to plot mechanics (which are themselves elementary in the extreme: helicopter pilot Holden would be such an asset as to settle the matter inside half an hour, so he must go). Thus, instead of doing a Queimada! and crying out in solidarity with the poor unfortunates accompanying our heroine to their fate, the makers are only concerned with rescuing the westerner from those she resembles but superficially.
Country: SW/US
Technical: col/scope 117m
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Peter Ustinov, Beverly Johnson, William Holden, Rex Harrison
Synopsis:
A UN doctor in Africa is kidnapped by slavers and caravanned across the desert to be sold to a sheikh in Egypt. Her husband meanwhile tracks them by any means he can, ultimately sinking to the same ethics as his quarry.
Review:
This trite thriller's one point of interest, the glimpse it offers of the centuries-old trans-Saharan slave route, is, needless to say of little concern to plot mechanics (which are themselves elementary in the extreme: helicopter pilot Holden would be such an asset as to settle the matter inside half an hour, so he must go). Thus, instead of doing a Queimada! and crying out in solidarity with the poor unfortunates accompanying our heroine to their fate, the makers are only concerned with rescuing the westerner from those she resembles but superficially.
