Odd blending of Hollywoodized soap opera and Sam Peckinpah-ish nihilistic slaughter RELEASED IN 1970 and directed by Lewis Gilbert, "The Adventurers" chronicles the life of Dax Xenos (Bekim Fehmiu) who, as a little boy in 1945, witnesses the violent deaths of his mother & sister during a revolution in the fictional South American country Corteguay. Much later, as an ambassador’s son in Rome, he’s an emotionally cold playboy who marries solely for wealth (Candice Bergen), but he’s haunted by Corteguay and maintains relations with the dubious dictator (Alan Badel). Ernest Borgnine plays Dax’ …
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