The Wind and the Lion

The Wind and the Lion is a 1975 Metrocolor adventure film in Panavision written and directed by John Milius. It starred Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith and John Huston. It was based somewhat on the reallife Perdicaris incident of 1904.

During 1904, Morocco is the source of conflict among the powers of Germany, France, and the British Empire, each of which is trying to establish a sphere of influence in that country. Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli is the commander of a band of Berber insurrectionists opposed to the young Sultan Abdelaziz and his uncle, the Bashaw Pasha of Tangier, whom Raisuli considers corrupt and beholden to the Europeans. He kidnaps Eden Pedecaris and her children, William and Jennifer, in a raid on their home, during which Sir Joshua Smith, a British friend of Edens, is killed. Raisuli then issues an outrageous ransom demand, deliberately attempting to provoke an international incident in order to embarrass the Sultan and start a civil war.In the United States, President Theodore Roosevelt is seeking election to a full term. He decides to use the kidnapping as both political propaganda coining the phrase Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead and as an effort to demonstrate Americas military strength as a new powerdespite the protests of his cautious Secretary of State, John Hay. ........

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