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User Rating:
7.2/10   1,468 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
William Harrison (novel)
William Harrison (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
23 February 1990 (USA) more
Plot:
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source... more | add synopsis
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1 win more
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Indiana Jones who? more (23 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Patrick Bergin ... Richard Francis Burton

Iain Glen ... John Hanning Speke
Richard E. Grant ... Larry Oliphant
Fiona Shaw ... Isabel Arundell (Mrs Burton as from 1861)
John Savident ... Lord Murchison
James Villiers ... Lord Oliphant
Adrian Rawlins ... Edward
Peter Vaughan ... Lord Houghton

Delroy Lindo ... Mabruki

Bernard Hill ... Dr. David Livingstone
Matthew Marsh ... William
Richard Caldicot ... Lord Russell

Christopher Fulford ... Herne

Garry Cooper ... Stroyan
Roshan Seth ... Ben Amir
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Runtime:
136 min
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Color (Rankcolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)
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Factual errors: Isabel asks Burton to sign her copy of "A System of Bayonet Exercise" and hands him a very substantial book. This writing of Burton's was a 36-page pamphlet. more
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Arab chief in Cairo: In this wilderness you will find only Allah's terrible whimsy. more
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Indiana Jones who?, 20 March 2002
9/10
Author: Barry Kruse from Boston, MA

This is an excellent film, and it's unfortunate that it wasn't more widely seen. I wish I would've caught it in the theater, as I'm sure it would be magnificent there.

In it, you're going to see some of the most painfully memorable scenes in cinema (that I refuse to give away), and an epic story that is most remarkably, wholly true.

I loved Raiders of the Lost Ark, and before "meeting" Sir Richard Francis Burton, thought characters of Indy's ilk were simply figments of Steven Spielberg's imagination. However, with study you will find that Burton's experience (and that well beyond this expedition) makes him one of the most enigmatic, interesting people to have ever walked the face of the earth. As they say, truth is stranger than fiction.

Slow, smart, challenging, beautiful. And highly recommended viewing.

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