{"id":29955,"date":"2022-06-12T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29955"},"modified":"2022-06-12T06:12:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T10:12:58","slug":"the-wind-and-the-lion-1975-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29955","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Wind and the Lion&#8221; (1975) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z061222zview_windandthelion.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"674\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Wind and the Lion <\/strong><\/em>(1975)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>John Milius<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>John Milius<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Sean Connery, Candice Bergen,<\/strong> <strong>Brian Keith, John Huston, Geoffrey Lewis\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Steve Kanaly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Between the wind and the lion is the woman. For her, half the world may go to war.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The year is 1904.\u00a0 In Morroco, Germany, France and Britain are trying to gain influence with the Sultan Abdelaziz.\u00a0 Mulai Ahmed el Raisuli (Connery) wants his country free of the influence of other countries and the corrupt Sultan.\u00a0 In an effort to create an international incident and inspire an uprising against the Sultan, Raisuli kidnaps a visiting American citizen, Eden Pedecaris (Bergin) and her two young children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Theodore Roosevelt (Keith) is running for re-election and plans to use the rescue of Eden and her children to help his campaign.\u00a0 Despite the fears that sending in the marines will cause, Roosevelt does just that.\u00a0 Eden and her children lives hang in the balance as German soldiers, US marines, Moroccans and Raisuli&#8217;s followers prepare for war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Milius has created a rousing story based on true incidents but fictionalized for the screen.\u00a0 Sean Connery is charismatic as Raisuli,\u00a0 Candice Bergin plays a smart woman and she&#8217;s never looked prettier.\u00a0 Brian Keith was born to play Teddy Roosevelt.\u00a0 If there are any nits to pick with <em>The Wind and the Lion<\/em> they take a back seat to Milius&#8217; power as a director and storyteller.\u00a0 <em>The Wind and the Lion<\/em> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z061222zview_windandthelion2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wind and the Lion (1975) Director:\u00a0 John Milius Screenplay:\u00a0 \u00a0John Milius Starring:\u00a0 Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,72,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-history","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30007,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29955\/revisions\/30007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}