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Ashanti (1979)

Director: Richard Fleischer

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From Time Out Film Guide

Faced with a dire script about the kidnapping of an Afro-American doctor into a trans-Sahara slave caravan, Fleischer opts for functional anonymity. Would that his cast had done likewise: all seem determined on self-parody in an otherwise humourless context, with Ustinov essaying a disastrous funny-voice act as the Arab slaver, and Caine, as the doctor's pursuing husband, looking totally uninterested. His recalcitrant camel remains the perfect image of and for a clapped-out primitive 'star vehicle'.

Author: PT 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: Richard Fleischer

Producer: Georges-Alain Vuille

Cast: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Peter Ustinov, Rex Harrison, Beverly Johnson, William Holden full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 117 mins


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