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US Embassy official "Miller" (Michael Sarazin) is despatched into the desert to try to track down the missing daughter of an influential US Senator. After many days (and it does feel like it) he meets her new and proud local husband - "Col. Nazrullah" (Behrouz Vossoughi) who init…
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Caravans
“The Power, the Sweep, the Spectacle of James Michener's Epic Desert Adventure!”
56%
Movie
2h 7m
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Caravans (1978) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Caravans (1978) — a movie tagged as Action, Adventure, and Drama with epic and emotional moods and fast-paced pacing.
Story & themes: This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a US Senator. The young woman has left her husband, a Colonel in the Shadom - she was his number two wife - and has opted for th… Our models also surface themes such as identity, conflict, and relationships from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for date night. Expect fast-paced storytelling (~127 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate Caravans 56% (18 votes) — mixed but watchable scores for this movie.
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Synopsis
This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a US Senator. The young woman has left her husband, a Colonel in the Shadom - she was his number two wife - and has opted for the lifestyle of a nomadic tribe. When the diplomat locates the girl he joins the caravan and attempts to persuade the girl to return.
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- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1978-11-02
- Runtime
- 2h 7m
- TMDB rating
- 5.6
- TMDB ID
- 41317
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This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a US Sen... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
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The official runtime for Caravans is approximately 127 minutes.
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Cast
Anthony Quinn
Zulffiqar
Jennifer O'Neill
Ellen Jasper
Michael Sarrazin
Mark Miller
Christopher Lee
Sardar Khan
Joseph Cotten
Crandall
Barry Sullivan
Richardson
Behrouz Vossoughi
Nasrollah
Jeremy Kemp
Dr. Smythe
- D
Duncan Quinn
Moheb
Mohammadali Keshavarz
Shakkur
Mohammad Taghi Kahnemoui
Maftoon
- B
Behrouz Gueramian
Peasant boy
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Parviz Gharib-Afshar
Nur Mohammad
Parviz Jafari
Fahimeh Amouzandeh
Mira
- S
Susan Vasiri
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Khosrow Tabataba
Dancing boy
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Shahnaz Pakravan
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US Embassy official "Miller" (Michael Sarazin) is despatched into the desert to try to track down the missing daughter of an influential US Senator. After many days (and it does feel like it) he meets her new and proud local husband - "Col. Nazrullah" (Behrouz Vossoughi) who initially refuses to let him meet her, only for it to turn out that she has again gone missing. More travelling reveals she has taken up with "Zulfiqqar" (Anthony Quinn), a tribal leader who makes a bit of money on the side smuggling Russian rifles into India. What now ensues is a remarkably filmed but terribly plodding adventure story that sees him and "Ellen" (Jennifer O'Neill) begin to understand each other and for him to realise just what she loves about her new home and it's people. Mike Batt's score (featuring the lovely dulcets of Barbara Dickson) and some beautiful and historic cinematography in and around Iran adds loads of richness to this presentation of the story, but sadly Quinn arrives far too late in the day to rescue this from grand-scale mediocrity and it ends rather weakly and ponderously. It could easily have been thirty minutes shorter and perhaps that would have tightened it up enough to sustain the thinly padded out thread, but as it is, it's a long old slog!
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