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Bookmark this pageAshanti (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
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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