The Jewel of the Nile (1985)

Director:

Lewis Teague

Writers:

Mark Rosenthal (written by) &
Lawrence Konner (written by) ...

Release Date:

11 December 1985 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Plot:

This is the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but...

Plot Keywords:

Rescue | Yacht | Sequel | Dagger | Novelist

Cast

Michael Douglas	...	Jack Colton
Kathleen Turner	...	Joan Wilder
Danny DeVito	...	Ralph
Spiros Focás	...	Omar
Avner Eisenberg	...	Jewel
Paul David Magid	...	Tarak
Howard Jay Patterson	...	Barak
Randall Edwin Nelson	...	Karak
Samuel Ross Williams	...	Arak
Timothy Daniel Furst	...	Sarak
Hamid Fillali	...	Rachid
Holland Taylor	...	Gloria
Guy Cuevas	...	Le Vasseur
Peter DePalma	...	Missionary (as Peter De Palma)
Mark Daly Richards	...	Pirate

Runtime:

106 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Arabic

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:PG | Iceland:10 | Ireland:PG | Portugal:M/6 | Brazil:Livre | Finland:K-12 | Norway:11 | Norway:12 (1986) | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Alpes-Maritimes, France

Company:

SLM Production Group

Trivia:

The Arabic words in the climactic "stage" scene are actually the Arabic names of Kirk Douglas's movies [rumour].

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Many details reveal the F-16 to be fake, for instance the windshield (divided instead of being a one piece) and the belly (big bulge where the main landing gear attach).

Quotes:

Jack Colton: Why does everything got to be your way?
Joan Wilder: My way? It wasn't my idea to take off and sail around the world with you on your boat for the last six months!
Jewel: I like this. You talk to each other like this often?
Jack Colton: [to the Jewel] Well, let me tell you what I had to put up. Three months ago, we're moored off the Canary Islands, midnight, sound asleep. A boat of three crazed Joan Wilder fans decide that they want the anchor of the Angeline for a souvenir! We were drifting for days!
Joan Wilder: Well, do you remember the incident at Gibraltar, Jack?
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Movie Connections:

Referenced in "100 höjdare: Världens roligaste ögonblick 50-41 (#2.6)" (2005)

Soundtrack:

I'M IN LOVE

A Good Movie To Watch On A Boring Night

I have given this movie a 7/10 because, taken on its own merits, it is just a delightful movie to watch. It's funny, although the slapstick sometimes is a little over done; but good wins out over evil, and leaves you satisfied at its conclusion. It reminds me of the "On the Road" movies made by Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour during the forties, but with better, if not sometimes outlandish, special effects and chases (e.g., the F-16 chase) and just as many, if not more, one liners.

However, the movie is more than just comedy. It pits secular evil against a spiritual goodness (the Jewel), albeit a spiritual goodness which on the surface seem naive and comic...but which, in reality, achieves its goals through that apparent naivty. That is a serious overtone which many of the previous comments on the movie seem to have overlooked. The Jewel does not perform miracles, but his presence and comic actions create an aura of the miraculous.