The Adventurers ( 1969 )

The Adventurers ( 1969 ) (DVD) (*)

$21.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
177 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1969 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Lewis Gilbert

Written By:
Michael Hastings
Lewis Gilbert

Actors:
Charles Aznavour ..... Marcel Campion
Alan Badel ..... President Rojo
Candice Bergen ..... Sue Ann Daley
Thommy Berggren ..... Sergei Nikovitch
Delia Boccardo ..... Caroline de Coyne
Ernest Borgnine ..... Fat Cat
Rossano Brazzi ..... Baron de Coyne
Olivia de Havilland ..... Deborah Hadl
Bekim Fehmiu ..... Dax Xenos
Anna Moffo ..... Dania Leonardi
Fernando Rey ..... Jaime Xenos
Leigh Taylor-Young ..... Amparo Rojo
Yolande Donlan ..... Mrs. Erickson
John Ireland ..... Mr.James Hadley
Jorge Martínez de Hoyos ..... El Cond

Synopsis:

Candice Bergen, Olivia de Havilland, Ernest Borgnine, Rossano Brazzi, Charles Aznavour and more star in The Adventurers, an irresistible mega-movie directed by Lewis Gilbert (Shirley Valentine, Moonraker) and loaded with all the trappings and treacheries, power plays and passions, intrigues and in-fighting of the world's super-rich. At the center of the jet-setting story is troubled playboy Dax (Bekim Fehmiu of Black Sunday). Raised far from his South American homeland of Corteguay amid the high society and political intrigue of Italy, Dax uses romance as a stepping stone to success... and all the while schemes to bring vengeance on those who once wronged him and his family. Let the adventure begin.

Set in South America, it tells the tale of a rich playboy, Dax (Diogenes Alejandro Xenos) (Bekim Fehmiu) who uses and destroys everyone who crosses his path. His vileness results from having seen his mother and sister raped and murdered by outlaws, and him being forced to kill his own grandfather. But his obsession is to avenge his father's murder. And yet, the father of Dax had been a true patriot unlike any of the other self-seeking Presidentes in an otherwise poor country always belonging to "the revolution." After Dax is himself shot and dies below a statue erected to exploit the memory of his father, Xenos finally realizes he loved his country but had failed both his country and to be the man his father was.

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he had assumed.

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