The Adventurers

The Adventurers

Infobox Movie
name = The Adventurers


image_size= 175px
caption= film poster
imdb_id = 0065374
producer = Lewis Gilbert
director = Lewis Gilbert
writer = Michael Hastings
Lewis Gilbert
starring = Candice Bergen
Alan Badel
Charles Aznavour
Bekim Fehmiu
Fernando Rey
Ernest Borgnine
Leigh Taylor-Young
music = Antonio Carlos Jobim
cinematography =Claude Renoir
editing =
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = 1970 | runtime = 171min
language = English

The Adventurers is a 1970 film based on the best-seller novel by Harold Robbins. It is directed, produced and written by Lewis Gilbert.

The film stars Bekim Fehmiu, Candice Bergen, Charles Aznavour, Olivia de Havilland, Fernando Rey, Ernest Borgnine, Alan Badel and Leigh Taylor-Young.

Set in South America, it tells the tale of a rich playboy, Dax Xenos, (Kosovan actor Bekim Fehmiu) who uses and destroys everyone who crosses his path. His vileness results from having seen his mother murdered by outlaws, but his obsession is to avenge his father's murder.

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