History Film / TheWindAndTheLion

* RatedMForManly

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Raisuli is clearly the toughest fighter in his whole outfit. Roosevelt is also shown practicing boxing, archery and marksmanship, one of the many ways that the two men are the same.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Raisuli rides off alone, leaving Mrs. Pedicaris behind]].

** The Raisuli (that's "[[AwesomeMcCoolname Mulai Ahmed Mohammed el Raisuli the Magnificent]]" to you, bub!)

* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: It rates a fairly hard 6, because of the chef's barely-noticeable severed arm, a few bloodless/goreless beheadings (unless you count the blood on the sword used), several non-spurting blood squibs, a severed head hanging by the wrecked ship, and a disembodied tongue.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Raisuli is clearly the toughest fighter in his whole outfit. Roosevelt is also shown practicing boxing, archery and marksmanship, one of the many ways that the two men are NotSoDifferent.

* NotSoDifferent: Numerous parallels are drawn between the Raisuli and Roosevelt.

''The Wind and the Lion'' is a [[RatedMForManly good old-fashioned high adventure]]. While it does not allow the beauty of the thing to be [[ArtisticLicense spoiled with obsessive accuracy]], it features loving attention to period ''details'', impressive set-piece action sequences, memorable acting and dialogue, and a sweeping [[MusicOfNote musical score]] by Music/JerryGoldsmith.

* MusicOfNote: By Music/JerryGoldsmith.

When an American woman, Eden Pedicaris (Creator/CandiceBergen), and her two children are kidnapped in Morocco by a Berber chieftain, Mulai Ahmed el Raisuli (Creator/SeanConnery), President UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt (Brian Keith) sends warships and Marines, leading to an international confrontation. The film focuses on the personal conflict between Roosevelt and Raisuli, and on the romance between Raisuli and Mrs. Pedicaris.

* HappyBirthdayToYou: This is one of the works that substitutes "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" for "Happy Birthday to You". It may be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] given the time period, but it's hard to say for sure. "Happy Birthday to You" first appeared in print in 1912, but it likely existed orally before that.

* HappyBirthdayToYou: This is one of the works that substitutes "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" for "Happy Birthday to You". It may be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] given the time period, but it's hard to say for sure as it's likely the song existed orally before it appeared in print.

* HappyBirthdayToYou: This is one of the works that substitutes "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" for "Happy Birthday to You". It may be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] given the time period, but it's hard to say for sure as it's likely the song existed before it appeared in print.

** The real Pedicaris may have been a man and whatnot, but this trope's inclusion is true to fact. He later said, "I go so far as to say that I do not regret having been his prisoner for some time... He is not a bandit, not a murderer, but a patriot forced into acts of brigandage to save his native soil and his people from the yoke of tyranny."

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Raisuli, Roosevelt, Hay, Samuel Gummere, Admiral Chadwick, Sultan Abdelaziz, even the Sherif of Wazan were all real people.

* TheKidsAreAmerican: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Eden is American, but her children seem to have English accents.

* OutdatedName: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Jennifer Pedicaris. "Jennifer" was a fad name in the 1970s, when the film was made, but an obscure form of Guinevere in 1904.

* OutdatedName: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Jennifer Pedicaris. "Jennifer" was a fad name in the 1970s, when the film was made, but was incredibly rare in 1904.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Most historical accounts show Raisuli as a vicious mixture of feudal bandit and political power player. For instance: Walter Harris recounts that when Raisuli's brother-in-law planned to take a second wife, Raisuli stormed the wedding party and hacked the bride and her mother to death. Thus, depicting him as a virtuous fighter for the autonomy of his people is a bit of a stretch. However, he ''was'' reportedly very polite to his ransomable captives.

** Judging from Rosita Forbes' biography of Raisuli, his penchant for archaic aphorisms is very accurate.

* AristocratsAreEvil: The Bashaw is this to a T. The Sultan borders on being an IntellectualSympatheticVillain, since he's shown to be completely in over his head and unaware of how to handle a complex diplomatic situation.

* AristocratsAreEvil: The Bashaw

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Raisuli picking off the desert bandits from several hundred yards away using only the iron sights on his Mauser rifle

A 1975 MetroGoldwynMayer ActionAdventure film directed by Creator/JohnMilius, ''The Wind and the Lion'' tells a [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory fictionalized]] version of the 1904 "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdicaris_incident#Perdicaris_incident Pedicaris incident]]."

* CasualDangerDialogue: Lots of it. Possibly the best example comes when Raisuli, warned not to risk his life in the hostage exchange, warily

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are numerous foreshadowings of WorldWarOne.

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