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www.sover.net - : Spare us from tedious adventure tales that have a thin plot, are completely loony and the three stars are miscast! Local prostitute and thief Dita (Sophia Loren) treks through the Sahara Desert, clad in a formal dress, as a batty dame looking for salvation from her sinful life; Paul Bonnard (Rossano Brazzi) is a religious nut from Europe posing as a wealthy do-gooder, clad in a suit, looking for gold in a lost city his father wrote him about during an expedition ten years ago he never returned from; Joe January (John Wayne) is the practical American hard-drinking drifter turned into a guide by dire circumstances, wearing a guide's outfit he could have picked up off the rack in a 5th Avenue department store, who takes the obsessed treasure hunter out in the desert even though he thinks he's dealing with a fool. The best moment is when Wayne casts an eye across the vast desert wasteland (beautifully filmed on location in Libya and with several breathtaking shots of the Bedouins crossing the desert) and exclaims ''A couple of men and a dame are a strain on any civilization.'' And there you have it in a nutshell, what this film was ultimately all about. more...
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