sean connery be very good a the great raisuli and lord of the rif and defender of the faithful . this be an adventure movie with arab and german and the usmc all come to grip at one point or another . there be also a lot of humor in the interplay among the main and support character . the story be base on the true incident in which a wealthy greek american businessman be kidnap by the raisuli in the early 1900s . milius have substitute candace bergen and her two child a the victim of the kidnapping and and this open the story to a lot of literary license . on the other hand and the movie give milius the opportunity to remind the viewer of two of the most famous ( though mostly forget ) political quotation of the tr era . brian keith ( very good a tr ) say and pedecaris alive or the raisuli dead . while and john huston ( also good a sec of state john hay ) ask the japanese ambassador at a white house dinner and you likee knifee and you likee forkee .