Written by James M. Tate / 1/04/2016 / No comments / adventure , cannon , eighties , john ryhs-davies , perry lang , race car , road trip , ronald lacy , sahara
BROOKE SHIELDS STARS IN SAHARA
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year: 1983 |
But we'll now center and focus on how the more creative of the two Israeli filmmaking Moguls, an actual writer (of this film) and director (of a few others), Menahem Golan, partner of the wheeling-dealing Yoram Globus, attempted to recreate his/their own LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, which is actually more funneled through a prior, completely legitimate David Lean homage in THE WIND AND THE LION directed by CONAN maverick John Milius while, at the same time, riding the INDIANA JONES bandwagon and later going full-blown in that pulpy adventurous route with KING SOLOMON'S MINES: and here we have two LOST ARK actors, including John Ryhs-Davies as a sort of Anthony Quinn whose powerful, bullying yet overall friendly grouch is outmatched by a young, handsome Arabian prince who Brooke Shields... during the peak of her outrageously gorgeous perfection on the big screen (though at times sounding like she's reading dialogue instead of living it)... is forced to marry in order to remain, well, breathing...
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Brooke with mustache |
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Now You Can Own This |
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Brooke and her Arabian Prince |
RATING: **
TRIVIA: This wasn't the first time John Rhys-Davies starred in a Cannon Film RAIDERS homage... he appeared in KING SOLOMON'S MINES while the other LOST ARK actor Ronald Lacey worked again for Golan/Globus in the Judd Nelson comedy MAKING THE GRADE. And let's not only blame The Cannon Boys for being influenced by David Lean and John Milius... The latter's close friend Steven Spielberg was heavily influenced by WIND AND THE LION for the making of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, which there is, in style and direction, many similarities of.
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