luscious candace bergen a a prim victorian beauty and kidnap by sean connery a a devilish desert sheikh . how can you go wrong . how . oh and let me count the way . earthy and primitive sean connery and exactly the right man to tame a brittle and classy beauty like candace and be . . . well and underwhelming in the role . that because and instead of have dialog about the real issue ( you be a woman . . . i be a man . ) he have to babble nonsense about the will of allah and the wind blow destiny across the desert sand . john milius and a director know more for the worship of naked male body and brute military force than any insight ( or interest ) in conventional human relationship and have a maddening way of cut away from his desert lover every time it look like candace might get kiss . instead of watch nature take it course with two fabulously attractive people in a picturesque landscape and we be treat to endless and ( and i do mean endless ) shot of brian keith flash his walrus size chopper and deliver gritty sermon on the joy of be teddy roosevelt . i have nothing against teddy roosevelt and but watch him test out his new rifle or make speech about the heroic death of a big bear just doesn not excite me the way the love story between candace bergen and sean connery would have . . . if it have ever actually gotten underway . the weird thing be and milius spend most of his time build up character and story line that have no resolution . candace two little child in the story both get more screen time than she do . there no humor and no chemistry and no sizzle and in any of the thing that happen to her in the desert . unless you think it funny that after week of gallop around on horseback her hair be still perfect . the only real moment in the story be when and late at night and candace bergen shake her little daughter out of a sound sleep on soft cushion and say and we must escape . the little girl turn over and and without miss a beat and reply and but mother and i be sleep . that one line sum up what really miss from the story . no danger and suspense and or sizzle in the basic story line and of a cultivated lady in captivity . she ( and her child ) be both so snug and well care for that it hard to believe anyone be work up about their fate . mind you and if candace herself have say the line it might have work well . if the tension come from her enjoyment of her captivity and ( or her delight at be in the arm of sean connery ) and her guilt about all the trouble be cause by her abduction and then the story would have have some tension . but milius make the odd assumption that the audience be just as work up a he be over whether teddy roosevelt will get the chance to prove his manhood three thousand mile away . in the end the pretty lady and her child do not seem to matter worth a damn to him . . . and since theyre at the center of the story the whole thing seem rather dry and endless . . . like the burning desert sand .