Adventurers (2pc) [VHS]
by Lewis Gilbert
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Actor: Alan Badel, Candice Bergen, Charles Aznavour, Delia Boccardo, Thommy BerggrenDirector: Lewis Gilbert
Cinematographer: Claude Renoir
Producer: Lewis Gilbert
Writer: Lewis Gilbert
Editor: Anne V. Coates
Producer: Joseph E. Levine
Writer: Harold Robbins
Writer: Michael Hastings
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 171 minutes
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Paramount
Studio: Paramount
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Movie Review: An entertaining film about the international jet set of the 70s
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie came out in 1970 and I enjoyed it greatly as a college freshman. It was a very revealing hot film even if it was not a financial or critical success. I decided to take a second look after 40 years and despite the criticism, the film really is good entertainment. It is an extremely ambitious film, full of characters, and full of European jet set dynamics and South American politics. The cast is very good with Candice Bergin demonstrating her considerable abilities early in her film making career. The depiction of the sexual appetites of the international jet set was ahead of its time. This is also one of those rare films where the film is much better than the book. Harold Robbins wrote the Adventurers based on the life story of a polo playing playboy, Porfirio Rubirosa, from the Dominican Republic who marries heiress Barbara Hutton and then later Za Za Gabor. The film captures the foreign intrigue and double dealing and the drugs and alcohol and parties of the beautiful people. Dax Xenos, the main character, based on Rubirosa, undergoes many traumas as a child which retards his emotional ability to love but certainly does not retard his ability to seduce and marry wealthy women. Dax gathers considerable wealth, slowly matures and becomes a responsible adult, which is a primary theme of the film. However the corruption of power, especially evident in South American politics, is also the context in which Dax lives and which he eventually gains the maturity to try to impact for the better. So we see a child, traumatized by violence and the murder of his mother and sister, become an international playboy seducing every attractive and wealthy woman he meets, only to finally be confronted with his personal power to impact injustice and maybe correct some of the wrongs he himself has committed through omission and commission. The film is highly entertaining.
Summary of Adventurers (2pc) [VHS]
Despite the tumultuous events in this sleek, handsome 1970 adaptation of Harold Robbins' bestselling novel, The Adventurers is arresting entertainment from the constantly inventive director of the original Alfie, Lewis Gilbert. Smoldering Yugoslavian actor Bekim Fehmiu stars as Dax Xenos, son of a revolutionary hero in an unnamed South American nation. As a child (played by Loris Loddi), Dax witnessed the murder of his mother and sisters by government goons, and he helped insurgent leader Rojo (Alan Badel) execute those responsible. As Dax grows up, his destiny is inexorably tied to the fate of his country and the whims of an increasingly despotic Rojo. But before he realizes that, the hunky gadabout chases women and races in the streets of Rome, spends some time as a gigolo (romancing a wealthy, heartbreakingly sympathetic Olivia de Havilland), marries and separates from a lovely heiress (Candice Bergen), and becomes a pawn in a terrible plot by Rojo to consolidate his power. The outstanding cast in this nearly three-hour film includes Fernando Rey, Charles Aznavour, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Ernest Borgnine. Gilbert's production is endlessly imaginative and exciting. Long before crowd scenes in movies could be computer-generated, directors such as Gilbert really did have to assemble thousands of extras for moments as spectacular as the battle sequences in The Adventurers. --Tom KeoghAction & Adventure VHS Video
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