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Summary: Great Epic about a man defending his nation against tyrany
Review: Great movie! Lots of passion, determination and an outright motivating scene...
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Summary: A lasting masterpiece
Review: hi guys i'm essam from libya and i would like to buy this book but i don't know how so plez if u don't mind send me one copy to me plezzzz
my adrees is
essam abedy
libya (baida)
omar mucktar university
p o box 911
with my best regaurds
essam
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Summary: a masterpiece
Review: I dont know whats wrong with these american movie critics. everytime a movie comes out that shows the atrocities committed by colonizers against the arabs, they have to trash it and give it the lowest rating(check "battle of algiers"). this movie is on my top movie list of all time. anthony quinn is extraordinary as omar mucktar. the way he fits into his role is just unbelievable. its like he has been living in the middle east all his life.
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Summary: A lasting masterpiece
Review: I find it amusing for Amazon to quote Jeff Shannon (Jeff who ?) and ignore Roger Ebert and the late Gene Siskel (The ciritically acclaimed movie reviewers) who gave the movie their TWO THUMBS UP when it was released.
Beside being a masterpiece all around,This movie can be seen twenty years from now with same pleasure and admiration for all the cast involved, similar to Lawrence of Arabia. Unlike the current four weeks movie box successes.
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Summary: I am very pleased to report that it¿s truly worth buying it
Review: I just received Lion of the Desert on DVD Format! Wow it is a really terrific, very professionally done.
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Summary: A MASTER PEICE
Review: I must say this will be the crown jewel in any DVD collection!
The picture quality looked fantastic , Do yourself a favor and order it,All the performances are excellent
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Summary: Very impressive
Review: I was surprised to see how much effort was put together in creating pre-WW era true historic event. This may not show what you want to see but it is inspiring how a seventy years old school teacher turned freedom fighter does not bow his head against invading armies and choose to live and die with pride.
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Summary: The above editorial review is v.Short-sighted
Review: It seems like Jeff Shannon is trying to discourage people from watching the movie. Why the mention of Qadaffi contribution to the movie. Why can't we review the movie on its merit and let people decide for themselves. I read the editorial review and then others, they seem to talk of two different movies. In fact its the same. Anthony Quinn's acting in the moivie was amazingly accurate to the culture and people he was depicting. At any rate, I think its a great movie about a David VS goliath story. May be the fact that David here is a Muslim fighting a Eurpean army may have something to do with why this movie could be limited to "footnote in books of movie trivia". But not if you get to watch Lion of the Desert about the epic struggle of the human spirit for freedom and justice against indominable odds.
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Summary: Jeff's prejudices
Review: Jeff Shannon, give me a break. I only hope that customers are not put off by Jeff's rather unprofessional analysis of this movie. Jeff, next time when reviewing a movie, please leave your prejudices at home with your 2 cats.
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Summary: Revealing Film on Resistance to Pre-WWII Fascistic Expansion
Review: Moustapha Akkad's film 'Lion of the Desert' accurately portrays facist Italy's attempts at regaining its Roman splendor in North Africa under Mussolini in the 1920s. Frustrated by the incompetence of his military suboordinates, Moussolini assigns General Rudolpho Graziani (Oliver Reed) to finish off the Bedouin resistance in Lybia led by the religious cleric Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn.)Both Quinn and Reed deliver strong performances in their respective roles. Quinn does a good job at protraying how even a simple man can become a great leader performing extraordinary sacrifices when his peoples are oppressed. Reed also delivers an outstanding performance as a determined military leader who is assigned the difficult taks of eliminating an elusive group of guerrillas. Rod Steiger as Moussolini renders a strong performance as the brutish facist leader. How he sought to relieve the stresses of disenfranchised laborers by shipping them off to reconquer the long-lost imperial glory of their Roman predecessors. The movie does a good job at showing the military tactics of the time and the incompetence of the Italian military leadership prior to Graziani's appointment. The movie also accurately portrays how ordinary peoples with no military training can become extraordinary soldiers against an invader when they know their territory and have support of the local populace: a lesson learned all too late in Vietnam by the U.S. Although the cast is strong, the movie was evidently made with a specific audience in mind. Even accepting the characters and context of the story, the script is strongly pro-Islam, pan-Arab, and somewhat anti-western: I therefore give it only 3 stars.
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