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James Michener (novel)
Nancy Voyles Crawford (screenplay) ...
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2 November 1978 (USA) more
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Nominated for Oscar. more
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Worth it for the shots of Iran more (5 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Anthony Quinn | ... | Zulffiqar |
 | Michael Sarrazin | ... | Mark Miller |
 | Christopher Lee | ... | Sardar Khan |
| Jennifer O'Neill | ... | Ellen Jasper |
| Joseph Cotten | ... | Crandall |
 | Behrouz Vossoughi | ... | Nazrullah |
| Barry Sullivan | ... | Richardson |
| Jeremy Kemp | ... | Dr. Smythe |
| Duncan Quinn | ... | Moheb |
| Behrouz Gramian | ... | Peasant Boy (as Behrooz Gueramian) |
| Mohamad Ali Keshavarz | ... | Shakkur |
| Parviz Gharib-Afshar | ... | Nur Mohammad |
| Fahimeh Amouzandeh | ... | Mira |
| Mohammad Kahnemout | ... | Maftoon (as Mohammad Taghi Kahnemout) |
| Khosrow Tabatabai | ... | Dancing Boy |
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127 min
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The final cinema film of Barry Sullivan. more
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So, OK, Citizen Kane this isn't. I re-read the original Michener book a few years ago and went looking for the movie. Only the largest video store in town had it, and you had to ask, because it was waaaay in the back stacks.
They simplified and Hollywood-ized the book's plot and removed much of Michener's trademark exposition on the good things, bad things, history and cultural foibles of Afghanistan. For that matter, they scrubbed out the word "Afghanistan" and made it a generic "country in the mid-East".
But it does have a lot of wonderful photography of Iran and a genuine bedouin people, who provided the extras for Anthony Quinn's "tribe". Iran had its revolution and became mostly closed to the West just a year after shooting, and it is almost heartbreaking to see all the magnificent countryside and archaeological sites that provide the backdrop, along with the knowledge that it is still so difficult, dangerous, and expensive to visit.