The Adventurers

  • Drama
  • Action
  • Adventure
3/25/1970
177
R

Nothing has been left out of "The Adventurers".

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was 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'd assumed.

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      • Wuchak

        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 ...

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