Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
Djevojka iz plemena Ashanti, アシャンティ, Þrælasalan, Ашанти, Porwanie, آشانتی, 贼山地, 아샨티
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Don't let the great cast fool you into watching this. It's no one's finest hour.
Michael Caine plays a UN doctor in Africa. Wife Beverly Johnson, also a doctor, gets kidnapped by a slave dealer (Peter Ustinov, with beard, robes and Arab accent).
Caine needs a little help to get her back, so the natural person to turn to is Rex Harrison.
Rex Harrison?
Yeah, he turns up here as a badass mercenary helicopter pilot.
No, not really. He's just the middleman to help Caine find a badass mercenary helicopter pilot-- the baddest in Africa Harrison says.
Enter William Holden, looking like the morning after. Exit Harrison, exposition duties performed.
Five minutes later: Exit Holden and the chopper.
Badass mercenary…
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According to IMDB: Michael Caine has said many times that he acted in this film purely for monetary reasons and considers it the worst project he's ever done. Caine once said that the film was "the worst, most wretched film I ever made".
While some of us who have seen a lot of Michael Caine's films think that Mr. Caine is wrong because he has made quite a few bad films, I think he means to say its his worse film experience, because...
According to IMDB: Heat was a major problem whilst shooting the picture with temperatures getting as high as 138 degrees Fahrenheit (= 59 degrees Celsius).
and..
According to IMDB: Due to the extreme high…
Dr David Linderby (Michael Caine) and his wife Dr Anansa Linderby (Beverley Johnson) visit an African village, on behalf of the World Health Organisation, to set up an inoculation clinic. No sooner have the opening titles ended than Anansa is snatched by Arab slave trader, Suleiman (Peter Ustinov), believing her to be a native of the village. She is to be sold to Arab Prince Hassan (Omar Sharif), David sets out to find her, entering into a world that authorities deny exists and those involved, ruthless.
I remember this being on tv regularly in the 80s and watching it every time it was on, just couldn't remember if it was any good or not. Whatever I saw must have been…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Michael Caine says this is the only film he regretted doing. In both of his autobiographies to date, he says about it that he expects no-one has ever heard of it and sincerely hopes that no-one ever sees it. Now - how can anyone resist seeing a movie that comes so well recommended. After all, Michael Caine made The Swarm, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure and Blame it on Rio: how bad could Ashanti possibly be that he considers it his all time worst?
This review is an extract from an even lengthier account on my website at: www.widerscreenings.com/ashanti.html
After moving to America in the mid-1970s, British star Michael Caine embarked on a series of Hollywood productions in order to establish…
It's not sure whether it's supposed to be moral tale of the African slave trade or a knockabout action film and sort of settles in the middle really. While we're depicting slavery, kidnap and probable sexual abuse of a child there's also 'funny' moments, like Michael Caine struggling to ride his camel, and this does sit awkwardly alongside weightier issues. Ustinov, who will forever be a fairly avuncular figure is perhaps a bit miscast as the evil slave trader - it's impossible to dislike him.
Over the years, Michael Caine has alternated between citing THE MAGUS, THE SWARM, and this as his career-worst movie, but none of those can realistically apply in a filmography that contains JAWS: THE REVENGE. ASHANTI isn't all that great, but it's hardly the worst thing he's ever done. It's an all-star adventure set in West Africa, where UN doctor Caine's African-born wife (Beverly Johnson) is abducted by nefarious Arab slave trader Peter Ustinov. Omar Sharif, Rex Harrison, and William Holden all have small roles with minimal screen time, and the only one of the bunch who seems give the slightest fuck is Kabir Bedi, who makes an interesting character out of a vengeful, outcast nomad who helps Caine, though he…
A very confused film tonally, conducted at times like an unavailing comedy with some lurid moments of human suffering dispersed along the way, portrayed in a clumsy approach that drifts away from Fleischer's usual analytical gaze: Ustinov, Bedi and Caine seem to be acting in completely different films, and the drama is pretty much inexistent within the desultory dramaturgy and second-rate script. Despite some occasionally abrupt cuts that fuel it with some anger, it felt otherwise like a somewhat flat, dull effort.
SOBRE RICHARD FLEISCHER, por José Oliveira.
Depois de tanto se ter emaranhado na América profunda da irresolução perpétua como cegado nos estúdios verdadeiros demais que projetaram a Terra Santa ou suado nas vísceras da Nova York contemporânea de centuriões, em toda a terra e em todo o mar sem estilo e abundante de concreto, Richard Fleischer teve de ver e de ouvir mais uma vez o mais antigo dos horrores, o da escravidão humana como ignomínia limite, para ir descobrindo que o rolo da maldade é só um com inomináveis e inumeráveis abismos e labirintos, como se tecido por um mesmo inspirado criador.
Em Ashanti vão dar-se vários encontros improváveis: Michael Caine, o médico inglês experiente, com Beverly Johnson, médica…
It's truly unbelievable how bad this movie is!
For the most part Michael Caine seems very mellow and relatively unfazed that he's just lost his wife to slavers
In the second half of the movie while he’s still trying to save his wife from slavery there's suddenly an inexplicable camel riding comedy scene?!?
What were they thinking???
Michael Caine's autobiography told me to never watch this film. Too bad
I wish I had slept through this the way Michael Caine did.
Ashanti. A rarity - the shunned flop that is actually exactly as bad as everyone says... in fact worse; misguided doesn't begin to explain this downright disgusting movie that tries to get you involved in a "romp" involving modern day slavery (lots of cold blooded killings and child rape promised!) while at the same time having the antagonist (Peter Ustinov) being a comic relief buffoon - also curiously wasted are Omar Sharif (as a perverted prince) and William Holden (as a useless pilot) though the biggest elephant in the room is Michael Caine, who makes absent mindedness into an artform - but wait, before thinking that this sounds like a disaster worth your while, I would be remiss not to point out that the plot is thoroughly lethargic; ultimately, this is a movie about some people who walk in the desert and two others who follow them - anything beyond that doesn't warrant one's attention.
