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Odd blending of Hollywoodized soap opera and Sam Peckinpah-ish nihilistic slaughter
RELEASED IN 1970 and directed by Lewis Gilbert, "The Adventurers" chronicles the life of Dax Xenos (Bekim Fehmiu) who, as a little boy in 1945, witnesses the violent deaths of his mother & sister during a revolution in the fictional South American country Corteguay. Much later, as an ambassadors son in Rome, hes an emotionally cold playboy who marries solely for wealth (Candice Bergen), but hes haunted by Corteguay and maintains relations with the dubious dictator (Alan Badel). Ernest Borgnine plays Dax spiritual guardian, Fat Cat.
The movies based on Harold Robbins book of the same title, which was loosely based on the real-life Porfirio Rubirosa, an ...